The Door of Perception
Bubenik paints hybrid apparatuses fusing organic growth with silicon-based structures. This utopian synthesis resonates in the titles of the works—Butterfly Machine, Transistor Embryo, Enzymatic Receptor.
Lachlan Turczan is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the interplay between natural phenomena and human 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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.
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.
She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.
Wolfgang Hutter was clearly gifted with an exceptional receptivity to feel the call of beauty and the creative power to translate it back into form.
Her body of work is an expression of her sensuality as a woman going through the different stages of pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood.
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.
The narrative drawings reflect the eternal human struggle for the right path in life, alongside our demons.
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
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 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.
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
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.
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 painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
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.
A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.
It’s like strolling through an otherworldly dream that feels like home at the same time, breathing the vibrant air of enchantment.
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
The base of Michiel Schuurman’s graphic work is a certain logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. Geeky algorithms, natural…
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
The works of Uri Shapira expose environments of alternative truth, made of active metal vegetation and various chemical growths.
Craig Burrows photographs plants and flowers using a type of photography called UVIVF or ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence.
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
Karolina’s mission is the transmutation of reality, her work far more than mere adornment — she weaves the umbilical thread that reminds us of dimensions we have just forgotten about.
The Adventurous Spark aka TAS is an Austrian 3D artist specialized in live visuals and mapping for psytrance festivals.
There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic. Isono is one of them and his love for the forest is very tangible.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
New York City born, Robert Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60’s after having…
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.
I love Benoit Paillé’s unusual and sensationally effective way to work with light and color.
Beneath our everyday world there is a miniature universe of cells, trillions of tiny worlds, unseen and beautiful. This is the machinery of life and it never rests!
In June 2015 Google engineers released a couple of images that caused a stir for everyone who’s able to grasp…
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
Today I woke up with a longing for color and the jungle. So I knew it’s time for Henri Rousseau.…
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.
Language and all forms of image making are very insufficient means of representation. But the urge to try is strong.
Take a close look at insects and remember how inconceivably wild and manifold life shapes on this planet.
