Monday, December 9, 2013

This is your self-portrait on drugs

Fellow bloggers, meet Bryan Lewis Saunders.

I'm going to count this series "DRUGS" as a new media work, because while the portraits are of various media, the ingestion of various pharmaceutical compounds was a vital component of the artworks. Note that the medications are, for the most part, legal, which makes an important point. This is a process-mediated series that'll likely give you chills if you've ever dealt with anyone who has been on the "let's try a new medicine, alter dosage, and repeat" cycle that plagues modern psychiatry.

Here's what really happens when your brain is on drugs--provided, of course, that one is an artist.



In 'Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset)' Saunders looks utterly thrilled, his eyes bulging and his mouth formed in an extatic grin.Words fail the description of 'Bath Salts', by far the most disturbing image, hacked into the paper with frustrated pen jabs

1 comment:

  1. 2nd one is "bath salts." Disturbing, funny, awesome. :)

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