Sebastião Salgado
Amazônia
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
Sebastião Salgado
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.
Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
Freddy Mamani
Totems of Andean Futurism
His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Rewilding the Heart
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
Lawren Harris
Summit of the Soul
Lawren Harris was born into one of Canada’s wealthiest families and was destined for a life in aristocratic circles, yet he always felt more at home in the great outdoors.
Híbridos
The Spirits of Brazil
A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.
Gage Taylor
The Holy Grove
His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.
Pierre Verger
Black Gods in Exile
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
Claudia Andujar
The Yanomami Struggle
Andujar’s legacy is a shining example of art and activism coming together as one.
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.
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.
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.
Bruce Ricker
Primordial Splendor
The painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.
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.
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.
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…
Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
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.
The North American Indian 1904 — 1924
Edward S. Curtis shows us an ancient way of life that is about to vanish. And after that the wisdom will be forever lost.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
David Attenborough
The Tribal Eye
This series from 1975 takes us on a journey around the world to reveal the making and use of tribal art in some of the few places on earth where the traditions are intact.
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.
Aluna
The Elder Brother’s Warning
In 1990, a BBC1 documentary film brought global attention to a remote South American people, the Kogi of Colombia, who…
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak
Storytelling from borderlands of worlds
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
Tomás Sánchez
Meditative states on canvas
Tomás Sánchez is best known as a painter of landscapes. These scenes are the sweetest praise of nature and meditation.
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.
Shamanic Healing
Travels into the next dimension
If you think you are a spiritual energetic being then you will heal yourself by merely realizing what you truly are. Shamans are your helpers on this path.
