The Door of Perception
Benoit Paillé’s pictures stand out with playfulness and a sensationally effective use of flash and color. What you see is real and was captured without the use of fancy image processing.
See more of his work here: Flickr / Behance
Previously I featured Benoit’s portrait series about Rainbow Gatherings.
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
We can begin to sense that we are animals too, just one experiment among countless others, shaped in reciprocity with a living world. At first, we might see otherness, but eventually, we can recognize another person staring back at us.
There’s a whole earth community that has nothing to do with human beings.
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
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.
A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
He calls himself a cosmic illustrator, visual alchemist and psychonaut. All images are from his left hand.
Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.
On these grounds, all perception is a gamble. A meta-level is always just around the corner, and Zawada’s hyperreal imagery is a vivid glimpse into an expanded perceptual bandwidth.
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
Minoru Nomata paints fantastical structures and towers, standing isolated in front of a subdued sky. Their purpose is mysterious.
The term Ama literally means ‘women of the sea’, as women were always the preferred divers in Japan.
To me these pictures present a futuristic vision rather than a look back at our savage ancestors.
Malcolm Kirk traveled to Papua New Guinea in 1967. He returned repeatedly during the ensuing 13 years, documenting the extraordinary tribal decorations he had observed on that initial trip.
A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
