What is Psychedelic Art Anyway?

Recently I happened to design a few art-patterns for Start Mobile (the online gallery that allows to download digital art “wallpaper” to mobile phones). I received a few interesting comments on this work referring to these designs as “psychedelic.” This was quite surprising since the psychedelic experience in general and psychedelic art in particular weren’t [...]

Spirit Diagrams

All right, I guess one can call these “organizational charts”, “flow diagrams”, or “navigational maps” of internal spiritual events. Arranging a limited set of shapes and patterns in a diagram manner allows to record a wide variety of psychological events impossible to show otherwise. Spatial arrangement, orientation, scale, directional properties implied by arrow-like shapes make [...]

Distorted Symmetry

I like the Yin-Yang symbol. Simple. Powerful. Ultimate. To me though, the mirror effects are even more fascinating when they are not the exact reflections or inversions, but rather “tweaked evolutions” of the “source”. Repeated reflection-distortion cycles turn basic shapes into complex multidirectional “power signs.” Interestingly, they gain some “organic” qualities due to subtle additional [...]

Imagined Alphabets

Shapes arranged in linear sequential manner tend to evoke a sense of written language. The fact that message cannot be understood does not really change its emotional appeal. Moreover, the less message can be deciphered the more seems to be the appeal – for it triggers our imagination. In fact we may not want to [...]

Wings, Snakes and Heart over Seascape

OK, here is a multilayer impression where semi-abstract constructions overlay the stylized seascape image. It is clear that imagery from very different “realms” may naturally co-exist, mix and interact. Interesting “meanings” may arise.