DJ calls these images "organic-psychedelic art." It's a fitting description. Each image originates as a high-resolution digital photograph of a natural texture - often trees, plants, soil, water, or snow. The original image then undergoes a process that in many ways mimics the process in which perceptions are changed and enhanced during altered states of consciousness. Indeed, there are some who say that contemplating DJ's images can induce altered states!

As with an explorer of consciousness or shaman who re-organizes perceptions using meditation, hypnosis, ritual, or entheogens, DJ shifts our perception of nature using digital technology. As you look at each of these images, bear in mind that all the original information of the natural texture is still present - and by re-arranging the perception of it, new layers and levels of information are revealed. Some of the images seem to reveal faces, forms, landscapes, luminous figures, and other tantalizing glimpses of another realm. The new perception may or may not mean something to your conscious mind - it is on the level of the unconscious that these works have their greatest impact.

Just view... and by now you know enough to enjoy whatever thoughts and feelings these images instigate in your consciousness.

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