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.
Tristram Lansdowne
Sci-Fi Islands
Tristram Lansdowne is a Toronto based painter who mainly works in watercolor. I like his futuristic approach of combining architecture with nature.
Brenna Murphy
Resonant hyper objects
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Jorinde Voigt
In Search of Meaning
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
Ithell Colquhoun
Psychomorphologies
After decades of neglect, the British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun is finally recognized as one of the most exciting and creative occult thinkers of the 20th century.
R. Gordon Wasson
Seeking the Magic Mushroom
Robert Gordon Wasson was an international banker, amateur mycologist, and author. It was him who reintroduced the ‘divine mushrooms’ to the West.
Anthroposophic
Architecture
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
Pedro Friedeberg
Architect of Patterns
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
Hans Silvester
Natural Fashion
I try to put down a marker against the fashion mumbo-jumbo of our consumer culture, that only reinforces disempowerment and…
Walter Spies
The Edge of Heaven
The image of Bali as a place of great physical beauty laced with a mysterious spirituality has its origins in the works of a small circle of bohemian expats in the 1930, of whom Spies was the most influential.
Julia Turk
Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea
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.
Johfra Bosschart
Unio Mystica
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Leonor Fini
Queen of the Underworld
Fini’s work blends elements of surrealism, symbolism, and fantastical imagery, with a fearless exploration of genderfluid identities and depictions of feminine energy.
Sasha Shulgin’s
Notebooks and lab records
Alexander Shulgin’s lab books were scanned in 2007 and made available online.
Crystallized Water
Revelation & Mystery
This message is so utterly beautiful in its implications that I just want to believe it! Love & gratitude materializes in beauty.
Alexey Kashpersky
The uncanny body
Why is it that looking at an open body causes such revulsion?
Viviane Sassen
Unfortunately Fashion
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.
Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
Ayahuasca Manifesto
The Spirit and its Planetary Mission
Many people ask me about Ayahuasca and I’m happy to share my experiences and the information I gathered.
The Lost Tribes
of Tierra del Fuego
For seven thousand years, the Selk’nam, Yamana and Kawésqar people inhabited the forbidding archipelago of Southern Patagonia.
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.
