Portrait of the artist on drugs

Bryan Saunders on psilocybin mushrooms

Bryan Lewis Saunders is chasing the American dream by doing a lot of drugs, and then painting self portraits while on drugs. In his own words:

I devised another experiment where everyday I took a different drug and drew myself under the influence. Within weeks I became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage. I am still conducting this experiment but over greater lapses of time. I only take drugs that are given to me.

I think the images speak for themselves. You can read more about this experiment in an interview with the artist at Dinosaur City.

[Thanks Mason!]

» more at: bryanlewissaunders.org

Posted By jamesk at 2011-01-21 13:44:21 permalink | comments

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nick. : 2011-02-01 03:07:12

i'd like to see lsd, dmt(preferably with an maoi), mdma, mda, and the 2c series.. all those prescription pill portraits kinda get me down

omgoleus : 2011-01-25 22:26:37

The comments on PCP are great: The PCP was just as bad. Any drugs that detach your mind from your body I don't care for too much. The PCP day I ate a ham sandwich with tomatoes in it and people kept knocking on my door asking if they could look at my Appalachian Trail self-portraits and I'd get to telling about 20 people at a time all of my hiking stories and showing them all of my drawings and then all of sudden someone would whisper, "Bryan, these people aren't real." And I would flip the hell out! Because even the person that whispered that wasn't real. And then there would be another knock at the door and more people would come in wanting to see my pictures and they too weren't real.

What's crazy is, my friend Audra said that she really did knock on my door and could hear me talking in there but I wouldn't answer it. It was all I could do to draw myself vomiting on PCP, and each time I heaved my face shifted off in stages and red clumpy chunky stuff kept coming out of my nose. I thought my brain was hemorrhaging, but it turned out it was just tomato from my sandwich. Thankfully.

guest : 2011-01-24 06:24:56

Next, he will draw the future....

Charles Frith. : 2011-01-22 10:45:05

Brilliant. Thanks.

wystri. : 2011-01-21 19:57:02

WOOOOOWWW

guest. : 2011-01-21 15:43:31

send the man some DMT!

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