The Root Atlas
Unearthed Intelligence
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.
The Root Atlas
Emma Larsson
Dreams of Beings Alive
She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.
Planetary Healers Manual
Survival into the 21st Century
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.
Alexis Pichot
Nocturnal Rites of Passage
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.
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.
Levon Biss
The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits
Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.
Kaljo Põllu
Eternity, Heaven and Earth
Like a deep well evoking forgotten concepts about origins, belonging, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world.
Wolfgang Hutter
Unquenched Desires and the Big Fear
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.
Isamu Noguchi
Playscapes
Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.
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.
Adrian Fisk
Until The Last Oak Falls
A book of unseen photographs documenting the early days of the British direct action environmental movement from 1995—1999.
Alexis R.
Embroidery of Autonomy
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enchanted Embodiment
and Ashtanga Yoga
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
Tintin
Coming of Age
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
