“Iced Flowers” Art Exhibit
This exhibition presents “ICED FLOWERS”, a work to observe the changing life of flowers that are locked in ice. Flowers will show unique expressions that they do not display in everyday life, by placed under such a different environment.
A Retrospective for Transformational Artist, Poet & Writer Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
World-renowned artist, poet, and writer Carolyn Mary Kleefeld & contemporary of Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna & others, celebrates her life’s work and rarely-exhibited paintings with an upcoming Retrospective Show in Big Sur, California.
Trip Report : Vegas Lights
Eric Meltzer writes about an altered state experience in Akhob, James Turrell’s Ganzfeld visual art installation hidden on the top floor of the massive Louis Vuitton store in Las Vegas.
Japanese Media and Psychedelic Yokai
The popularity of monster hunting culture in the demon blood-soaked West comes from its prehistoric psychedelic origins, when our ancestors freely indulged in visionary plants and found themselves living in the enchanted world of laughing fairies.
Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums
I spoke with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.
Trippy Portraits of Famous Psychonauts
Nicolás Rosenfeld has produced a capturing series of portraits of famous psychonauts, from Carlos Castañeda and John C Lilly to Syd Barrett and Nick Sand. Colorful, vibrant, and “apt” are all great ways to describe these. Check them out.
The Poetry of Mycology: Paul Stamets in Conversation with Fungal Artist Phil Ross
Paul Stamets is a visionary scientist, who-in his advocacy of medicinal mushrooms, fungai bioremediation, and biodiversity-is the world’s foremost ally of the humble mushroom. Stamets talks with with Phil Ross, an artist who creates fungal sculptures.
Making Art by Dropping Drugs into Film Negatives
Artist Sarah Schoenfeld is interested in “ways to make the internal, visual.” Currently she’s dropping drugs onto film negatives, with some uncanny results.
H.R. Giger’s Private Polaroids Reveals Even More Xeno-Erotica
The recently published “H.R. Giger: Polaroids” reveal even more of the late Swiss artist’s visionary combination of sex, death, and nightmare machines.
Megacities and the Noosphere: A Riff on the Evolution of the City
What can megacities tell us about the evolution of consciousness? Are there alternatives to hyper-industrialized cyberpunk dystopias?
