The Door of Perception
Jerry Uelsmann is a pioneer of photo manipulation in the darkroom. His dreamlike scenes are created with a technique called combination printing without any digital editing involved.
There’s a talk by Uelsmann at the end of the post.
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
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.
Escher reveals a world far away from our general perception of reality, a world of mathematics, a world of abstractions, anticipating deep features of modern day cosmology.
Language and all forms of image making are very insufficient means of representation. But the urge to try is strong.
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.
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.
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
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.
The subject of Swiss painter Raffaello Ossola is consistent. He paints gateways into an ethereal realm.
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
The following manifesto is a testimony of an awakened youth movement realizing its power. Born from the European rave culture…
Wolfgang Hutter was clearly gifted with an exceptional receptivity to feel the call of beauty and the creative power to translate it back into form.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
The ancient art of wayfinding is an almost forgotten skill once common throughout the Pacific.
