The Door of Perception
The boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve, vegetal phenomena slip into the guise of human dramas, and we can sense the magical entanglement of all realms of experience …
Her heartfelt portraits of mothers and children are imbued with an almost utopian serenity. This same raw, earthy beauty flows through all her creations, whether it’s her vibrant cakes or her drawings made with natural pigments.
Huxian Peasant Paintings are a product of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ostensibly painted by amateur worker-peasant-soldier artists, they depict idealized scenes of the thriving socialist countryside.
Painter of poems, writer of spots, dancer of words… Michaux’s work blurs the boundaries between literature, art, and philosophy as self-experiment.
The portrayed bodies are realistically drawn yet seem to herald a transcendent realm of essence beyond life and death.
My kind of art is showing something that exists. The fractal exists. I didn’t create it, I didn’t come up with it, I found it.
These drawings and prints by Arata Isozaki visualize the fundamental concepts behind some of his most iconic buildings.
Fini’s work blends elements of surrealism, symbolism, and fantastical imagery, with a fearless exploration of genderfluid identities and depictions of feminine energy.
Their latest exploration into generative AI seems like a natural evolution of their practice.
In this ongoing series Dan Coe uses open-source Lidar data to illustrate the evolution of rivers and deltas.
The publication uses AI to mash up ages, geographies and traditions, creating virtual artifacts indistinguishable from historical records.
He calls himself a cosmic illustrator, visual alchemist and psychonaut. All images are from his left hand.
These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
Despite their brief existence, snowflakes are a testament to the limitless creativity woven into the fabric of the natural world.
Amy Woodward’s tender photographic eye focuses on portraying the experience of early parenthood. A pivotal moment for everybody living through…
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.
Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.
After a tumultuous life, often in conflict with the law, including periods in psychiatric hospitals, the founding of a sect and practicing as a fortune teller and healer, he began to draw at the age of 57.
I think it is fair to say that Pete Mauney is obsessed with photographing fireflies. For more than twenty years he finds solace in his nocturnal wanderings and an inexhaustible challenge for the next interesting composition.
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.
Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.
His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.
David Uzochukwu (born 1998) is an Austrian-Nigerian artist engaging with longing and belonging through (self) portraiture. He uses photography and…
Sophy Hollington is a Brighton-based illustrator who has made a name for herself through her unique take on futuristic folklore realized in linocut.
The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.
She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.
The person behind the name Selvesportrait is a nomadic seeker, a nature worshipper and a naked mirror to the infinite beauty.
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
The long-time exposures Alexis brings back from his solitary immersions into the night reflect a desire for stillness, to retrieve a timeless meaning lost to modern man.
