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.
Oscar Reutersvard
The Impossible Figure
Oscar Reutersvärd is widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.
Boyle Family
The Tidal Series
The objective of this series was to examine the effect of the elemental forces on the site; and to lift the actual sand off the surface and to fix it in its exact place and shape.
Bryan Haynes
Above the Beyond
Bryan Haynes’ ability to portray trees in an otherworldly light speaks to me in the most visceral way. It awakens a memory I carry within, of another kind of seeing.
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.
The Cloud Appreciation Society
Indulging in the aimless activity of watching the ephemeral beauty of clouds can enrich your life. Realize we don’t live beneath the sky, we live within it.
Molly Greene
False Vegetation Gods
I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.
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.
Nature Photography
In Praise of Observation
These days the light returns and I behold an enchanted world. I feel so grateful for this gift of vision and the living world it presents to me.
Aldous Huxley
Island
This book isn’t a novel but rather a manifesto. The final work of Huxley is a sociological blueprint, a manual for living, loving and dying.
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…
De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Rick Doblin
Myths About Psychedelic Drugs
Rick Doblin is the the founder of MAPS and one of the most prominent fighters for opening our culture to the healing power of psychedelics.
Yoga
The Art of Transformation
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
Anouk Van Kalmthout
The Art of Dyeing
It’s like strolling through an otherworldly dream that feels like home at the same time, breathing the vibrant air of enchantment.
DMT Visions
Chronicles from Beyond
Language and all forms of image making are very insufficient means of representation. But the urge to try is strong.
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
We all know this masterpiece but the delight is in the detail.
TAS
DMT fluorescence out of the dark
The Adventurous Spark aka TAS is an Austrian 3D artist specialized in live visuals and mapping for psytrance festivals.
Nick Brandt
The Day May Break
Chapter I & II
The Day May Break is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
Richard Mosse
The Impossible Image
Richard Mosse‘s infrared photography makes you think about the very act of perception.
Terence McKenna
Global Perspectives
and Psychedelic Poetics
Every time I return to Terence McKenna I am amazed once more. Hours of listening just fly by.
