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.
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.
Osho’s discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, given in Pune from 1973-76.
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Capturing the fleeting moments of a wave’s journey to dissipation, Australian photographer Ray Collins feels more at home floating in…
I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect…
I was told it’s a pity that DOP is such a men’s club. And it’s true, the feminine is underrepresented.…
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.
The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…
The term Mysore Style means you practice a memorized yoga sequence without being led by a teacher. The role of the teacher is to guide as well as provide adjustments or assists in postures.
Rimantas Dichavičius is a photographer and illustrator from Lithuania. In this book he confronts the female nude with pictures of nature.
In 1993 the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller created MYST — a video game unlike any other before. It’s a…
In this ongoing series Dan Coe uses open-source Lidar data to illustrate the evolution of rivers and deltas.
Robert Gordon Wasson was an international banker, amateur mycologist, and author. It was him who reintroduced the ‘divine mushrooms’ to the West.
The Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, can be considered the bible of counterculture in the 60s and 70s. It compiles tools that can empower the individual within the global community.
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
Language and all forms of image making are very insufficient means of representation. But the urge to try is strong.
