Vaka Valo’s ongoing ‘Dream Diary’ series brilliantly repurposes schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals and turns them into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists. Especially Toshio Saeki evokes a similar feeling in me, although using more explicit images.
William Blake
The Book of Job as an Encounter with the Self
A numinous, archetypal event that can lead to enhanced consciousness and is therefore crucial to the psyche of modern man.
Sharon Ellis
Tumult in Earth, Calm in Heaven
Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.
Marjorie Cameron
Songs for the Witch Woman
Cameron was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist who emerged as a key figure in the California counterculture movement in the 1950s and 60s.
Ben Roberts
Expired trips into the blue
Ben Roberts creates photographic contemplations of rural Japan with an unique artistic signature.
Simon G. Powell
The Psilocybin Solution
Simon G. Powell had no real budget or crew, but he did have a Hi-8 video camera, some music equipment, a computer and lots of inspiration.
MYST
Creating digital worlds
In 1993 the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller created MYST — a video game unlike any other before. It’s a…
Pablo Amaringo
Shaman and painter
Amaringo’s paintings give a good impression of the quality of an ayahuasca vision. Pablo César Amaringo Shuna was born in…
Tom Killion
Californian Topophilia
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Flor Garduño
Inner Light of the Goddess
Flor Garduño’s pictures are a celebration of eternal womanhood and fecundity of nature.
Pierre Verger
Black Gods in Exile
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
Malcolm Kirk
Man as Art
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.
Hermann Hesse
Lebensstufen
Traveling south, being outdoors and reading Hesse goes well together.
And I’m realizing again how deeply this man talks to me.
Zone Patcher
Psychoactive fractal art
The works of Zone Patcher are the very definition of digital psychedelic art.
Heinz Edelmann
My psychedelic childhood
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.
Moebius
Color work
It’s been a long time since the last post on Moebius. Back then I presented a selection of his black and white work…
Matthew David Segall
Footnotes 2 Plato
My own infrequent writings are purely experientially and I’m not well-read enough to refer to the spiritual heritage of millenia. However others can.
Phillip Stearns
High Voltage Image Making
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
Caio Reisewitz
The Changing Brazilian Landscape
Reisewitz’ photographs, most of all large formats, explore the changing relation of the city and the countryside in a period of feverish economic development.
Thomas Shearer
Galaxies frozen 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.
Icaros
One who set forth
to learn what being alive was
This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home.