The Door of Perception
American photographer Spencer Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. To me it’s neither transgressive nor very inspiring in a deeper sense. It is just that, “individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together”. But I can imagine that the actual happening is a great experience.
I just create shapes and forms with human bodies. It’s an abstraction, it’s a performance, it’s an installation.
Spencer Tunick
I am fascinated by people who make the bold step into alternative ways of living. If none of the given choices seem to fit you, create your own!
This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.
Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
Steve Axford does what he likes most. It’s taking pictures and exploring the living world that unfolds evermore interconnectedness to him.
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.
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans.
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered in Amsterdam in 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.
Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.
La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
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.
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
Georgia O’Keeffe is mostly known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms and flowers at close range with which she sought to share the beauty she witnessed.
I just had an experience that left me totally overwhelmed. I went to my first group session of Holotropic Breathwork…
Minoru Nomata paints fantastical structures and towers, standing isolated in front of a subdued sky. Their purpose is mysterious.
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
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.
