The Door of Perception
Australian illustrator Dan McPharlin is deeply interested in exploration; Early sea voyages, deep sea probes and space travel — Exploring distant worlds. And this is truly the spirit that conveys for me: Setting foot in undiscovered regions and walking humbly into the unknown.
For more visit Dan’s Flickr.
And check the master of science-fiction landscapes, Roger Dean.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
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.
Despite their brief existence, snowflakes are a testament to the limitless creativity woven into the fabric of the natural world.
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
In the early 18th century Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in North India, known as Jantar Mantar.
These drawings and prints by Arata Isozaki visualize the fundamental concepts behind some of his most iconic buildings.
I would describe the work of Ernesto Neto as ‘body art’. It’s a supreme example of art that communicates by bodily sensations.
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
Ben Roberts creates photographic contemplations of rural Japan with an unique artistic signature.
A practice of self-enquiry like yoga isn’t on the agenda of a system of control and conformity. But even in East Germany people pursued this path, despite the risk of arousing suspicion.
These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.
Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.
Pavel Tchelitchew clearly was a seer of the unseen, a true visionary artist.
The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
Daehyun Kim’s Moonassi series is his life-time project. He draws to meditate on himself and others. And the others again can use the drawings to contemplate as well.
Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.
After a tumultuous life, often in conflict with the law, including periods in psychiatric hospitals, the founding of a sect and practicing as a fortune teller and healer, he began to draw at the age of 57.
