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.
Pierre Radisic
Heavenly Bodies
The skin of another is as cryptic as the vastness of the heavens above. But we try to find meaning, with celestial maps of heavenly bodies.
Jacob Kirkegaard
Nagaras
Jacob Kirkegaard‘s photo series Nagaras 1 and 2 explores a sonic phenomenon which only occurs in a few deserts around…
Alexandra Duprez
The eternal metamorphosis
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Anna Halprin
Breath Made Visible
Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you.
Karl Blossfeldt
Urformen der Kunst
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.
The Overview Effect
& Satellite imagery
Most probably I will never look down at mother ship earth from space. But some astronauts did when they set out to explore the final frontier.
Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
Wenzel Hablik
Crystal Utopias
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
Lennart Nilsson
A Child is Born
The mere fact that you exist is quite awesome. The way you came into this existence is a unsurpassable miracle hard to believe.
Phillip Stearns
High Voltage Image Making
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
Marc Marcel
DMT & The Meaning
of Life
This talk really has it in it. So much truth in so simple words. Here’s more of him.
Asger Carlsen
Studies on flexibility of relation
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
Paul Laffoley
The visionary
Laffoley is a visionary painter, designer, futurist & hyperspace cartographer based in Boston. Diving into his world may cause a feeling of dizziness due to an overdose of novelty.
Islamic architecture
Kaleidoscopes of adoration
Gazing up into the kaleidoscopic worlds of these Iranian mosque ceilings invokes a feeling of transcendental glory.
Zone Patcher
Psychoactive fractal art
The works of Zone Patcher are the very definition of digital psychedelic art.
The Century of the Self
Death by Propaganda
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
Der Himmel über Berlin
Wings of Desire
If the human being is the only animal that knows it lives in time, the movie is about that knowledge, a modern fairy tale about the nature of being alive.
Thomas Shearer
Galaxies frozen in time
Thomas Shearer’s main focus is on agate and I spent hours browsing his vast collection. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Moebius
The World of Edena
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
Ben Tolman
Detailed views on inner landscapes
Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
