David Jien
The Tale of the Inner Struggle
The narrative drawings reflect the eternal human struggle for the right path in life, alongside our demons.
David Jien
Pierre Verger
Black Gods in Exile
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
DOP Mixtape II
Nothing Lasts but
Nothing is Lost
This is a little gift in remembrance of an unsanitized rave culture, that is so much more than mere escapism.
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.
Klaudia B. Lewandowski
A Sensuous World
Klaudia B. Lewandowski is a photographer and creator of visual poetry, based in Berlin. She looks at the world through the eyes of a curious child, collecting sticks and stones and flowers along the way.
Becoming
The Genesis of Life
The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans.
Claudia Andujar
The Yanomami Struggle
Andujar’s legacy is a shining example of art and activism coming together as one.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Body Land
For more than forty years, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing his body immersed in nature. What you see happening in the image happened in front of the lens.
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.
Dying to Know
The Mystical World
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
Ama
Women of the Sea
The term Ama literally means ‘women of the sea’, as women were always the preferred divers in Japan.
Philip Kirkland
Energy Ecstasy and your Seven Vital Chakras
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.
Charles Burchfield
The Shimmer of Nature
Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.
The Last Honey Hunter
of Nepal
Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.
Johfra Bosschart
Unio Mystica
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
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.
Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.
Stanley Keleman
Emotional Anatomy
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.
Stanisław Szukalski
Behold! The fall of man
Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.
Franciszek Starowieyski
The Opulence of Demise
Franciszek Starowieyski liked to think of himself as a draftsman from the 17th century. The lushness of form and erotic exuberance is truly Baroque.
Orgyan Chopel
New Visions in Thangkas
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
The Media-Shaman Manifesto
The following manifesto is a testimony of an awakened youth movement realizing its power. Born from the European rave culture…
Simen Johan
Until The Kingdom Comes
The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…
Nine Eyes
Stranger Than Fiction
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
Bruce Ricker
Primordial Splendor
The painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.
Tim Flach
More Than Human
We can begin to sense that we are animals too, just one experiment among countless others, shaped in reciprocity with a living world. At first, we might see otherness, but eventually, we can recognize another person staring back at us.
Rajni Perera
(M)otherworlds
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
Jonathan Zawada
Metamathemagical
On these grounds, all perception is a gamble. A meta-level is always just around the corner, and Zawada’s hyperreal imagery is a vivid glimpse into an expanded perceptual bandwidth.
Walter Russell
In the Wave lies the Secret of Creation
Russell was a visionary — painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and author. But he had no background in science. His cosmogony is based on a revelatory event he experienced at the age of fifty.
Hamid Sardar
Shamans & Hunters of Mongolia
“We exist in relation to three things: The forest, wild animals, and our ancestor spirits. Once we lose the connection to these things, we invite demons to take hold of our destiny.”
Chris Bryan
Mocean
Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.
Rebel Wisdom
Sensemaking in the Time of Chaos
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Klea McKenna
Automatic Earth
Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.
Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
María Medem
Dancing between Earth and Sky
A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.
Enchanted Embodiment
and Ashtanga Yoga
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
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.
Metamorphosis
Chaos, Creativity and Imagination
A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.
Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Linda Westin
Illuminated Dendrology
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
Sabin Bălaşa
Dreams of Eternal Blue
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Seeds
Time Capsules of Life
Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.
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.
Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
M. C. Escher
Hyperbolic Dreams
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.
Robert Fludd
As above, so below
Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.
Johfra Bosschart
The Zodiac Series
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Joth Shakerley
The Rainbow Tribe
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
Paul Wunderlich
Everything you can imagine is real
Paul Wunderlich was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He’s one of the most important members of the Magic Realism movement.
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.
Irving Penn
Worlds in a Small Room
Best known for his fashion photography, Irving Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats, still lifes and ethnographic photographs…
Tom Killion
Californian Topophilia
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Maxfield Parrish
The Doctrine of Divine Light
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
Wenzel Hablik
Crystal Utopias
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
Moebius
The World of Edena
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
Michiel Schuurman
The logic of replication
The base of Michiel Schuurman’s graphic work is a certain logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. Geeky algorithms, natural…
Alexandra Duprez
The eternal metamorphosis
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Tuco Amalfi
The source of light is within
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Primitive Technology
The Satisfaction of Simplicity
Primitive Technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule.
Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
Tyrone Williams
Beauty hidden in plain sight
The photography of Tyrone Williams is a reminder that beauty is to be found everywhere — In trash cans, puddles and rearview mirrors. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Leo & Diane Dillon
The Heart with Wings
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
