These paintings by the Japanese artist Aimei Ozaki are the most beautiful homage to cacti and succulents, plants with truly remarkable characteristics.
Saskia Olde-Wolbers
Drowned worlds in slow motion
It is rarely possible that an artist’s vision pierces me to the heart at first glance. Dutch artist Saskia Olde-Wolbers did so. Her clear as a bell vision is unmistakable and unique.
Richard Evans Schultes
Father of modern ethnobotany
Richard Evans Schultes is the father of modern ethnobotany and some of his scholars carry on his heritage.
Kevin Lucbert
worlds in between blue lines
Kevin Lucbert draws doors into parallel universes. And he mostly uses the color blue, which obviously fits to DOP. It…
Primitive Technology
The Satisfaction of Simplicity
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.
Beth Moon
Ancient Trees
Beth Moon has been photographing some of the largest, rarest, and oldest trees on Earth for the past fourteen years.
Ithell Colquhoun
Psychomorphologies
After decades of neglect, the British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun is finally recognized as one of the most exciting and creative occult thinkers of the 20th century.
Spencer Tunick
Body Mass Index
Spencer Tunick photographs individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together.
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.
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.
Johfra Bosschart
The Zodiac Series
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Mati Klarwein
Images of a generation
No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…
Mars
A photographic exploration
This book is the best reminder that a computer screen can’t replace the printing quality of a well produced book. The nuances of black are outstanding…
Joth Shakerley
The Rainbow Tribe
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Uri Shapira
Chemical bloom
The works of Uri Shapira expose environments of alternative truth, made of active metal vegetation and various chemical growths.
Lucyna Kolendo
Corpo Solido
Every day anew I am fascinated by the human form, my body. While looking at my trembling feet in a yoga pose, I wonder what this body is.
Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Paul Stamets
The Future is Fungi
Paul Stamets is a mycologist and a true renaissance visionary with a pathbreaking message.
Hans Silvester
Natural Fashion
I try to put down a marker against the fashion mumbo-jumbo of our consumer culture, that only reinforces disempowerment and…
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.
