Monday, 21 October 2013

Bryan Lewis Saunders (Independent Research)



These are a couple of images that I have selected out of a series called drug, where the artist has taken drugs and then drawn a self-portrait while under the influence of them, the portrait on the top left was done on bath salts, and the other was while on cocaine. These images are particularly interesting to me because it shows the effect some of these drugs have on the mind and its ability to function properly, with some of the other drugs making it so the portrait is more just a scribble as if a child had done it, and others that look quite disturbing, so as someone who’s never used any form of drug, this is an interesting representation of the effects they can have and the kind of things that go through the mind of some one that’s on them. It’s also interesting and worth noting that jurying these “experiments” as he calls them, he did give himself mild brain damage due to taking a different drug every day over a couple of weeks.


http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/ (image sourse)
plus the other images from the series, and more information about the work.

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