I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect on me, so bold and soothing at the same time. I feel deeply immersed in this world and I want to stay a bit to warm up.
Eyvind Earle
Master of the trees
Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising.
Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Phil Kirkland
The psychedelic textbook solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Alex Grey
How Art Evolves Consciousness
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Sarah Schönfeld
All you can feel
Sarah Schönfeld, an artist from Berlin puts different drugs on photographic negatives. The prints look fantastic…
Jerry Uelsmann
Photo Synthesis
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
Jon Han
Death and Transfiguration
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Richard Mosse
The Impossible Image
Richard Mosse‘s infrared photography makes you think about the very act of perception.
Hans Bellmer
Degenerate Art
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
Yoga
Being whole
This post is a reminder to myself: “Do Yoga. It’s good for you!” I was introduced to Ashtanga once and since then I know that I should follow this path.
Aimei Ozaki
Plant contemplations
Cacti and succulents are plants with fascinating characteristics. And this series portrays them in the most beautiful way.
Spencer Tunick
Body mass index
Spencer Tunick photographs individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together.
Roger Dean
Floating Dreamlands
Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…
Uri Shapira
Chemical bloom
The works of Uri Shapira expose environments of alternative truth, made of active metal vegetation and various chemical growths.
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.
Daehyun Kim
Moonassi
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.
Moebius
Black & White work
When it comes to Moebius aka Jean Giraud (* 1938 — † 2012) it’s hard to make a choice what to present. His body of work is huge and versatile. My selection focuses on his early black & white work.
Kohei Yoshiyuki
The Park
I hesitated to make this post because what it reveals is a rather weird presentation of human desire. But ultimately…
Bernard Durin
Beetles and other Insects
There’s a whole earth community that has nothing to do with human beings.
