I first came across the work of Oscar Reutersvärd on Swedish postage stamps. He’s widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.
Let’s lose ourselves in the contemplation of the paradox. I imagine it helpful to loosen narrow views.
Ivan Rabuzin
Symbols of the absolute
Rabuzin found the utmost simplicity, concision and perfection in the sphere and the circle, which were to become his symbols of the absolute, symbols of completeness.
Tyrone Williams
Beauty hidden in plain sight
The photography of Tyrone Williams is a reminder that beauty is to be found everywhere — In trash cans, puddles and rearview mirrors. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Nature Photography
In Praise of Observation
These days the light returns and I behold an enchanted world. I feel so grateful for this gift of vision and the living world it presents to me.
Ernst Haeckel
Kunstformen der Natur
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
Hans Bellmer
Degenerate Art
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
Renzo Martens
Enjoy Poverty
Renzo Martens’ Enjoy Poverty is one of the most provocative films that have been circulating the art world since its release in 2009.
Art meets Science and Spirituality
in a changing Economy
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered in Amsterdam in 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.
Hermann Hesse
Lebensstufen
Traveling south, being outdoors and reading Hesse goes well together.
And I’m realizing again how deeply this man talks to me.
John C. Lilly
Sensory Deprivation
Today I spent my first hour inside a floatation tank. If you never heard of it I recommend this article for a start: Sensory Deprivation Tanks. I just started to read a book by John C. Lilly the inventor of the tank. He also combined the lack of external stimuli with large doses of LSD.
Jordan Kasey
Radiating Eternity
I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect…
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
Tom Killion
Californian Topophilia
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Robert Beatty
Keep it surreal
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
Maxfield Parrish
The Doctrine of Divine Light
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
René Laloux
La planète sauvage
La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
Michiel Schuurman
The logic of replication
The base of Michiel Schuurman’s graphic work is a certain logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. Geeky algorithms, natural…
Pedro Friedeberg
Architect of patterns
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Forces in nature and humans
Georgia O’Keeffe is mostly known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms and flowers at close range with which she sought to share the beauty she witnessed.
Jon Han
Death and Transfiguration
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Moebius
The World of Edena
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
