So it seems that in the 1950's, the US government was studying the effects of LSD by studying human subjects. One experiment involved a man drawing 9 pictures as he progressed through his acid trip. That 6th one is pretty badass in my opinion.
Posted by Rick at January 6, 2004 08:47 AMThe 6th one is pretty neat, I wonder how much the effect has to do with the change in medium. Personally I dig the 8th and 7th ones the most. Why am I not supposed to do drugs again?
Posted by: John at January 6, 2004 09:03 AMThree and seven were my favorites. I like the description in on drawing six, though, "Patient tries to climb into activity box, and is generally agitated - responds slowly to the suggestion he might like to draw some more. He has become largely none verbal."
Posted by: Fatboy at January 6, 2004 12:53 PMMy favorite LSD-inspired art comes from Alex Grey. It has the vaguely-
Eastern-spiritual quality that a lot of kids are latching on to - especially after he was commissioned to design the artwork for Tool's Lateralus - but a lot of it is simply beautiful.
He was a coroner or something, so his anatomical work is also incredibly precise (check out "Kissing" and "Copulating"). Journey of the Wounded Healer is a pretty wild three-parter that shows off his scientific, spiritual, and drug-induced influences. Also, it's 12ft x 7.5ft. Big is better.
Regarding the original ink: does it say anywhere why the gov't was testing LSD? Is this just before they invented PCP - one of their cold war superman type projects? If anyone wants to get together and do our own LSD research, I can make a call.
Posted by: Chris at January 6, 2004 02:36 PMI think I remember hearing somewhere that the government originally wanted to use LSD as a memory enhancer, to kind of make super spies. But that was something that I heard back in middle school, and I can't see what that would have to do with art.
Posted by: Fatboy at January 6, 2004 04:24 PM