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.
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
Tomás Sánchez is best known as a painter of landscapes. These scenes are the sweetest praise of nature and meditation.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
Daehyun Kim’s Moonassi series is his life-time project. He draws to meditate on himself and others. And the others again can use the drawings to contemplate as well.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
Tomorrow November 12 the space probe Rosetta will deploy a lander to the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
There are contemporary “back to the land” communities practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. Projects like this will serve as a touchstone to those interested in living differently.
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
I’m aware of Ana Noble and her life at the navel of the moon (Mexico City) since I discovered her flickr stream many years ago.
My father’s home and studio became very inspiring to me. I find it very interesting to see people’s characters reflected…
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
I would describe the work of Ernesto Neto as ‘body art’. It’s a supreme example of art that communicates by bodily sensations.
Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration. The phenomenon is visualized with various materials…
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Research indicates that shamans access an intelligence, which they say is nature’s, and which gives them information that has stunning correspondences with molecular biology.
Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.
