The Door of Perception
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. To feel its weight and sometimes its almost levitating lightness. To become aware of the magic that this heavy inert flesh is vitalized by breath.
That’s why these pictures by Lucyna Kolendo speak to me.
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Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising.
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.
His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
Dürckheim’s legacy is psychotherapy in the spirit of Zen. His books are classics of transpersonal psychology.
Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you.
The painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.
Best known for his fashion photography, Irving Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats, still lifes and ethnographic photographs…
Symbolika is a visionary illustrator who explores the fractal, geometrical and spiritual nature of the psychedelic experience.
I would describe the work of Ernesto Neto as ‘body art’. It’s a supreme example of art that communicates by bodily sensations.
I try to put down a marker against the fashion mumbo-jumbo of our consumer culture, that only reinforces disempowerment and…
There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic. Isono is one of them and his love for the forest is very tangible.
Drawings from Philippe Caza‘s Hydrogenesis.
I was told it’s a pity that DOP is such a men’s club. And it’s true, the feminine is underrepresented.…
