The Door of Perception
Every belief system has to offer a good story. The more poetic and sensational the more likely to find followers. Paul Gustave Doré‘s way of depicting Christian imagery is a great example.
My selection focuses on his illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Also check this huge archive of Doré‘s Bible illustrations.
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Alexander Shulgin’s lab books were scanned in 2007 and made available online.
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.
The person behind the name Selvesportrait is a nomadic seeker, a nature worshipper and a naked mirror to the infinite beauty.
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
I’m totally fascinated by Hannsjörg Voth‘s structures in the Moroccan desert. There is a beautiful book called Stadt des Orion…
Their latest exploration into generative AI seems like a natural evolution of their practice.
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.
When it comes to Moebius aka Jean Giraud (* 1938 — † 2012) it’s hard to make a choice what to present. His body of work is huge and versatile. My selection focuses on his early black & white work.
A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.
Tristram Lansdowne is a Toronto based painter who mainly works in watercolor. I like his futuristic approach of combining architecture with nature.
I don’t wanna spoil it for you. First look at the pictures and wonder what you see. Then read below.
Rimantas Dichavičius is a photographer and illustrator from Lithuania. In this book he confronts the female nude with pictures of nature.
Simon G. Powell had no real budget or crew, but he did have a Hi-8 video camera, some music equipment, a computer and lots of inspiration.
