December 1st, 2008 | Published in
Mythos
The art of Fuchs forces an examination of the Western roots of spirituality, affirming revelatory spiritual power within Christianity. In the wake of Darwinism, and the world wars this has not been a popular position. And yet Fuchs himself had to work through the perplexities and obscurities, and the devestation of post-war Europe, to find the shining pearl hidden in the mire of matter.
Tags: Ernst Fuchs, fantastic realism, mische
December 1st, 2008 | Published in
Deep Ecology
A facinating theory of evolution which integrates the role of matrifocal socieities and the role of art into the mix. “Culture requires brains, and brains of that immense degree were never necessary in any other animal. The human act that demanded immense brain power was the act of art. This requirement is because in art there are no limits.”
Tags: evolution, neoteny, woman
November 27th, 2008 | Published in
Mythos | 2 Comments
Cast forth from the garden by the jealous archon, she wanders the earth, trying to find another garden.
Tags: Daniel Mirante, sophia
November 20th, 2008 | Published in
Interviews | 2 Comments
Inspired by the ever evolving, intrinsic relationship between nature and technology, Android produces lavish works in many formats, incorporating complex and varied themes of science, nature, electronic music and planet Earth.
Tags: deep ecology, montage, nectarian, organic
November 2nd, 2008 | Published in
Visionary Art Culture
“Gaia”, painting by Alex Grey - www.alexgrey.com
Stretching out like one of the Buddha’s great bejeweled parasols, the term Visionary Art encompasses a wide variety of styles, genres, periods, and degrees of abstraction. Definitions abound, but here is my hard crystal: visionary art is art that resonates with visionary experiences, those undeniably powerful eruptions of numinous and multidimensional perception that suggest other orders of reality.
Tags: Alex Grey, Erik Davis, visionary art
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- H. R. Giger and the Soul of the Twentieth Century by Stanislav Grof Published in Visionary Art Culture
All the essential elements of twentieth century’s Zeitgeist are present in an inextricable amalgam in Giger’s biomechanoid art. In his inimitable style, he masterfully merges elements of dangerous mechanical contraptions of the technological world with various parts of human anatomy.
- Some Thoughts on DMT Art Published in Visionary Art Culture, Visionary Plants
Outside the Amazon, artists not born into or raised in indigenous or mestizo ayahuasca-using cultures, including such well-known visionary artists as Alex Grey, Robert Venosa, and Martina Hoffmann, have rendered visual experiences attributed to the ingestion of ayahuasca or DMT. For want of a better term, I will call this body of work DMT art…
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