The Door of Perception
There’s a reliable way to create art that gets to the people. It’s the human body that makes you find common ground with everybody. That’s the vehicle we all share but perceive and use in such a limited way. Reminding people of their bodies is an essential function of an artist to my mind. It’s the first step towards the expansion of consciousness
Asger Carlsen does it brilliantly. Looking at his pictures makes me think about my form and its range of functions.
For 15 years Paul Noble is building his imaginary city called Nobson. He presents this world in isometric projection only and I would love to pay this place a visit.
This documentary is a great introduction to the world of Wilhelm Reich. A pioneer on so many levels. His holistic…
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.
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
Roger Caillois’ involvement with stones isn’t so much on a scientific level, he more created a philosophy around the inner worlds of the stones.
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost 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.
This 3D printing project is so extraordinary because of it’s self-sufficiency. It creates objects out of sun and sand. Of course it’s still in the early stages of development. But imagine what this could do in the future.
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
I think it is fair to say that Pete Mauney is obsessed with photographing fireflies. For more than twenty years he finds solace in his nocturnal wanderings and an inexhaustible challenge for the next interesting composition.
Andujar’s legacy is a shining example of art and activism coming together as one.
Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…
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.
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.
Her body of work is an expression of her sensuality as a woman going through the different stages of pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood.
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
