The Door of Perception
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation. He used photography in the early days but his images are still powerful today. It reminds us to look at the ordinary and realize the immanent wonder.
My plant records are intended to help re-establish a connection with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, draw attention to the abundant wealth of forms in nature and encourage people to observe our native flora for themselves.
Karl Blossfeldt
The works of Uri Shapira expose environments of alternative truth, made of active metal vegetation and various chemical growths.
Primitive Technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule.
This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
The works of Zone Patcher are the very definition of digital psychedelic art.
No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…
When I look at the sculptures of Constantin Brâncuşi I feel a deep serenity. It is the revelation of the…
This video from 1998 is one of the last interviews before Terence passed away in April 2000.
The boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve, vegetal phenomena slip into the guise of human dramas, and we can sense the magical entanglement of all realms of experience …
These photographs capture a split second of a transient state. Just gaze into unfolding space.
The film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the filmmaker had tried to recreate the poet’s inner world.
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.
Anna Paola Guerra is living and working in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And since I discovered her photos I feel the…
Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
In this ongoing series Dan Coe uses open-source Lidar data to illustrate the evolution of rivers and deltas.
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
For seven thousand years, the Selk’nam, Yamana and Kawésqar people inhabited the forbidding archipelago of Southern Patagonia.
Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.
Escher reveals a world far away from our general perception of reality, a world of mathematics, a world of abstractions, anticipating deep features of modern day cosmology.
