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.
Exploring
micro worlds
After so much exploring the inner worlds and energetic realms, back to matter.
Terence McKenna
An Ocean of Ideas
In this lecture Terence unfolds an ocean of ideas, a metaphor for the psychedelic dimension you are sailing out onto to cast the net of the human imagination to retrieve novel ideas out of the chaos.
Benoit Paillé
Nightscapes wrapped in color
I love Benoit Paillé’s unusual and sensationally effective way to work with light and color.
Henri Rousseau
Dreams of the jungle
Today I woke up with a longing for color and the jungle. So I knew it’s time for Henri Rousseau.…
Spencer Tunick
Body Mass Index
Spencer Tunick photographs individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together.
David S. Goodsell
The Machinery of Life
Beneath our everyday world there is a miniature universe of cells, trillions of tiny worlds, unseen and beautiful. This is the machinery of life and it never rests!
David Jien
The Tale of the Inner Struggle
The narrative drawings reflect the eternal human struggle for the right path in life, alongside our demons.
Ernst Fuchs
Architectura caelestis
Ernst Fuchs was one of the most influential masters of the visionary arts movement.
James Turrell
Perceive your Perceiving
Turrell is an artist who works with the nature of perception. He uses light to make you perceive your perceiving.
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.
Brenna Murphy
Resonant hyper objects
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Jantar Mantar
The observatories of Jai Singh
In the early 18th century Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in North India, known as Jantar Mantar.
Kirlian Photography
The blaze of the force
Kirlian believed that images created by Kirlian Photography might depict a conjectural energy field or aura, that surrounds all living things.
Cliff Briggie
Transient states
These photographs capture a split second of a transient state. Just gaze into unfolding space.
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.
Painted Land
Australian Aboriginal Art
The art of the Australian Aborigines is one of the oldest artistic traditions alive. This selection shows paintings from the mid-fifties until now by artists from the Arnhem Land region in Northern Australia.
Planetary Healers Manual
Survival into the 21st Century
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
Ama
Women of the Sea
The term Ama literally means ‘women of the sea’, as women were always the preferred divers in Japan.
Franciszek Starowieyski
The Opulence of Demise
Franciszek Starowieyski liked to think of himself as a draftsman from the 17th century. The lushness of form and erotic exuberance is truly Baroque.
Theo Jansen
Kinetic Automata
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
