The Big & Dandy Psychedelic Art/Poetry Thread

[two fathomz]

www.larrycarlson.com

pick up his DVD its the most incredible trip mind candy u will ever experience

 

[whitenoise]

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50971487/

This wasn't quite inspired by psychedelic experience, but after taking psychedelics I've realised it's a pretty good description anyway.

 

[TheAppleCore]

Absolutely fucking awesome thread. LOVE a lot of the work posted in here.

I did this before I knew anything about psychedelics, when I was pretty young. I just sat there with pen & paper, and closed my eyes until my mind came up with some kind of weird visual, and then I transcribed it onto my paper.

 

[swilow]

^^^Thats cool man, is it four or tour written upon it-

what has your mind outputted after ingestion of psychedelics, I want a proper before and after comparison shot!

 

[illusion25]

here is another one-
this one is not psychedelic induced but rather a 3 day methamphetamine binge. BAM BAM BAM
pencil done it one day......
but it is a psychedelic style pic so i thought i would post-



Shot with KODAK Z730 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2007-07-26

btw cognosis...your art is awesome...keep it up!

 

[Xorkoth]

Just reading through and bumping this awesome thread... I finally got a new working scanner, so once I get home and think of it I'll scan the personal mandala I painted after a night of LSD + 2C-B, finally. It's about the concept of infinity in all forms.

I have decided to post a bunch of pictures I took with my phone during my last 5-MeO-MiPT trip. It turned out to be one of the best I've had on that substance. My fiance and I went to a local famous garden to explore it at the beginning of sunset. My colors were so saturated that everything looked incredible. It won't quite translate but I still love these pictures (sorry in advance for the length of this post):

This first one is of a blood red rose I encountered:

This next rose was very shy... she was blushing behind a bush but I managed a shot:

I believe this is a little Brugmansia tree. It gave off an aura of mystery and darkness in the midst of a bright, verdant garden. Yet it was not menacing:

We came across a bush which had butterflies teeming around it in pairs, wheeling through the air playfully. This one let me get close enough for a great photo.

This next one speaks for itself:

My fiance came across these and said "Look, fractal plants!" And so they were named by us:

This rose was glowing from within with a gorgeous orange. I cannot describe how brilliant and vibrant this looked:

I was laying on the ground envisioning a small animal or insect's perspective on this garden. It made this rose look awfully tall!

This plant's leaves looked black/velvety, yet when the light hit them they reflected an oily green iridescence. I've never seen anything quite like it before:

A cluster of orchids growing from an archway that smelled like soap:

It looked like every one of these delicate and striking purple leaves had been cross-stitched with green threads:

This rose was so vibrantly pink that it literally left a purple spot in my vision due to retinal burn, as if I had stared at a bright light for a while:

Eight-foot-tall cabbage-like plants make this look like a giant's garden:

And finally, here's an amazing spot in the garden, a verdant outpost of mid-September growth. My finger was blocking the light from the sunset that was beginning, so the picture would not be washed out:

 

[IGNVS]

breakthrough there

 

[Toltec]

Go to my myspace site Click on the links to play around while your triping!
Its all my art work you'll see there. even the page itself!

www.myspace.com/toltek

Happy trials

 

[mahans]

Some black and whites I shot, printed in a dark room, scanned and then photoshopped into vivid color

The Wearing Away of Time

I'll post others by request.

 

[swilow]

^ I request others!!

Actually guys, I am looking for artwork for my EP, its being released via a small net label in Ireland. I work under the name Hexagonsun- so if any of you artists can think of something psychedelic and PURPLE, I will perform oral sex on you. The musics psytrance, proggy stuff http://www.esnips.com/web/sam-pyes-psy-trance

I'd love to see some visuals to go with it

Xorkoth, they were indeed brugs, ,ooking abit worse for wear.... great plant to meditate in front of, if your into that sort of thing. Lovely photos man

 

[Xorkoth]

Thanks! I went back to the same garden yesterday evening. God, that place is amazing. It's special, really... one of the most beautiful and peaceful and friendly places I've ever been. It was sunset and the sky looked like a painting. I wanted to take more pictures but it was too dark for my phone camera.

I am still going to scan some paintings I've done, but I've been a lazy boy and my scanner still needs setting up. 8)

For the millionth time, I'm thinking about how glad I am that I designated this thread as a place for art. It's one of my very favorite threads on Bluelight.

 

[swilow]

^Anything that could be a psytrance album cover?

 

[Xorkoth]

I don't know... possibly. I don't think I have anything purple though... I'll look around later on when I'm home. I'd love to have something of mine appear on your album cover! But I have a feeling that some others on here, maybe even some art posted already, would work better.

 

[nealcassady]

fooled around with oil and water/color dyes (though its black and white) in glass clock faces on top of an overhead projector on low doses of acid with my girlfriend, took pictures of her silhouette up against my wall.. got the idea from the visual optic groups that did this same thing back in the early prankster acid tests, real fun, most fun i've had working on a school project

 

[Xorkoth]

Here are 3 more photos taken from the same garden area from some other previous time. I tried to make them be from the garden's perspective:

Field of unimaginably red roses... the sunlight was making pools of white on the tops:

Peeking from behind a stem - the insect's perspective:

And finally, I just love the color and shape of these roses:

Well, one more... this is a sunset in California (around Chico) in which I captured this awesome kinetic shot:

Oh hell, whatever, here are a few more I love!

In the Redwoods in Sonoma, CA, in the forest with General Armstrong:

Sonoma county coast:

And finally, a shot from near the top of Mount Shasta... that was an awesome place. Immense stillness, total peace, on top of the world:

All of this was done by my camera phone... the LG Chocolate.

 

[Xorkoth]

Finally, I managed to take pictures on my painting I did, and mean while I also made another. I took the pictures with my camera phone, because my scanner is too small to fit them, so it might not be the very greatest quality, but it should be pretty decent.

I do a style of painting that I call "organized chaos", in which I begin painting colors and shapes as subconsciously as possible, trying to choose whatever colors and whatever shapes comes to me. At first I have no clue what I'm going to create, but as time goes on the ideas start to coagulate onto the page and by the end it has become a whole piece with meaning. Both paintings use this style and belong to a series of paintings which I intend to create more of. I use these as personal mandalas.

The first is called "dichotomy". I painted it the day after I had been up all night on LSD and 2C-B and had a beautiful and profound trip about the concept of infinity. The painting is supposed to bne a mandala of sorts. The large pink and blueish rings in the foreground represent an instance of the universe, perhaps the one in which we reside. It contains all manner of tiny details (created by "stamping" the page with various shapes and with small brush strokes). Then in the background are many distant, smaller pairs of rings. Each represents a separate possible universe. The two colors of each set of rings represents the two opposing forces (the dichotomy) that exists at the root of any concept.

The second painting is called "The Creation of Existence" (might change the name if I can think of a better one). It's supposed to be a star, or gathering of energy, which is burning away to create raw matter. This is represented by the tiny bits of color coming right out of it. That matter then gathers together into larger and more complex groups, which in turn gather together into even more complex and larger groups, and so forth. This is represented by the ever-enlarging shapes out towards the end of the page, as well as the transition from red and brown "hot" matter to cooler greens and blues. If the page had been large enough, I would have eventually liked to have it all coalesce into an animal or plant or something, but the page would have to be truly titanic! I painted this one mostly with "stamps", starting somewhere in the middle. The star was the last part to add, as the concept evolved in my head:

I also have a close-up of this second painting at some random spot (evidently it turned out a bit blurry):

Also, these paintings are both supposed to be rotated 90 degrees to the right, but they look strange when rotated. Plus I guess it doesn't really matter given the nature of the content.

 

[swilow]

^Very interesting artwork Xor- are you at all interested in indigenous Australian rock art or painting? This stuff really reminds me of that. Also of the ayahuasca artwork of Pablo Amaringa in the use of lines and strokes. Are you a cave painter that has been fooling archaeologists all these years?

Next time you trip, you should actually embed one of these in the natural landscape, using natural paints of course- why can't we still create great works of art in the natural environment? Some of the most haunting images I've seen were of aboriginal paintings in North Australian caves- except the paintings were about 10 metres above our head on a celing as it were- how? WHY? But beautiful. Also (though I haven;t beheld with my own two eyes) rock artowrk in Peche Merle, France (I'm sure I've spelt that right) is very telling of possible psychedelic use by the ancients, and in what is now an underwater cave at that.

Its interesting Xorkoth, that you said that you let your unconcious paint for you, and the results seem to contain a lot of archetypal phosphene-like imagery. This is a good book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constants

 

[Ptah]

The first

Lovely. Equally interesting btw but from an esthetic POV I like #1 more.

 

[Xorkoth]

The first one means a lot more to me as well... the second was sort of impersonal. Actually, I was sober(ish) (meaning marijuana was present to some extent) for at least half of the second painting, and on 2C-B for the other half (the second half), when it started to really take form.

When I did the first one was the point at which I "invented" the technique in my brain. It was on the plateau of a really beautiful LSD + 2C-B trip that left me feeling really inspired.

It's interesting to hear that they resemble cave paintings and aboriginal work, as I really am just letting my subconscious make it form. I just entertain whatever whims with a brush enter my head, making some basic judgement calls, and I have literally no clue what it is going to be. Then as I get in a background, I start to think of objects to use to create shapes and patterns and eventually it becomes something part-conscious.

Anyway, I think the first one is prettier, but overall I am more satisfied with the second... perhaps because it contains more detail... if you could see it up close, every single tiny pattern that I stamped on looks unique because of the way the paint splattered at that particular time... the detail is immense. And coincidence! Ahh, I love to witness the beauty in the organization of chaos.

 

[Caroline]

A recent cactus trip comedown:

later, nearing dawn and unable to sleep: