When Psychedelia Becomes a Way of Seeing
Gaspar Noé’s work has long taught me that psychedelia is not about spectacle, but about perception shifting into another register. His frames flicker, dissolve, and expand into states that feel closer to consciousness unraveling than to conventional storytelling. When I create my bloomscapes, I draw from this altered way of seeing. The petals, colours, and symbolic figures are not meant to mimic nature but to echo the sensation of slipping into a trance, where emotion stretches and perception floats above the ordinary. This shift in vision allows the artwork to breathe with a kind of inner luminosity that feels both disorienting and deeply clarifying.
Floating Perspectives and the Dissolution of Gravity
One of Noé’s signatures is the floating camera—a perspective that drifts above bodies, buildings, or entire cityscapes. It creates a vertigo that is less about fear and more about liberation from physical ground. I feel this influence in the way I construct spatial relationships within my prints. A bloom may tilt forward as if suspended mid-air, while a symbolic figure may hover between layers of botanica rather than resting within them. Gravity loosens its grip, giving the composition an atmosphere that feels dreamlike and unbound. This weightlessness becomes a metaphor for emotional release, allowing the viewer to travel through the image rather than merely look at it.
Psychedelic Colour as Emotional Frequency
Noé’s psychedelic palette—ultraviolet purples, piercing magentas, electric greens—does not simply decorate the scene. It behaves like an emotional frequency broadcasting inward tension, surrender, or ecstatic overwhelm. In my bloomscapes, I approach colour in a similar way. A petal may glow as though carrying its own internal charge, and a root-system may pulse with gradients that seem to vibrate. These choices are not about visual extravagance, but about allowing colour to speak the truths that words cannot reach. Psychedelic colour becomes a bridge between inner sensation and visual form.
Bloomscapes as Trance Fields
Creating a bloomscape often feels like constructing a trance field—an image that invites the viewer into a slowed, expanded state of awareness. Noé achieves this through repetition, flicker, and the dissolution of linear time. I work with these ideas through mirrored botanica, recurring petal formations, and subtle internal glows that behave almost like rhythmic breathing. The artwork becomes a place where perception softens and intuition sharpens, echoing the same suspension that Enter the Void creates through its drifting motion and hypnotic edits. The bloomscape is not an escape, but a deepening.
Symbolic Figures in a Psychedelic Atmosphere
My symbolic figures often appear to be moving between states, dissolving into botanica or floating above it, as if caught in Noé’s shifting realities. Their outlines may blur into light, and their bodies might feel both present and transparent. This is not meant to obscure them, but to show their emotional permeability. Psychedelic imagery teaches me that identity is fluid and that the self is not confined to a single, static form. By allowing these figures to fluctuate, I create a sense of emotional truth that mirrors the instability and openness of the psychedelic experience.
Trance as Emotional Clarification
Although psychedelia can seem chaotic, it often leads to a strange form of clarity. Noé uses sensory overload to push the viewer into an altered state where quieter truths can emerge. I follow a similar instinct with my art prints. Layers of botanica, flickering glows, and heightened colour temperatures encourage the viewer to move beyond surface interpretation. What begins as visual complexity gradually reveals a soft inner coherence. The trance becomes a method of understanding rather than a distraction from meaning.
Where Film and Bloomscapes Intersect
Noé’s influence on my work is not direct imitation but a shared pursuit of emotional intensity through altered perception. His psychedelic frames show how an image can dissolve its own boundaries, and my bloomscapes carry that lesson into botanical, symbolic form. Both approaches use distortion, glow, and floating perspective to illuminate something internal rather than external. Through this meeting point, the artwork becomes a space where emotion vibrates freely and perception expands, allowing the viewer to experience a world that blooms from within rather than simply appearing on the surface.
