really interesting experiment. I wonder how many decisions he made about materials he would use and style of portrait he intended to do, before he took the drugs though, you'd have to plan ahead and would naturally have prejudices about what drugs do beforehand.
I think drugs don't bring anything new, creatively, they let people access different parts of themselves possibly, but you'd have to have those talents without drugs anyway. I've just finished reading a book called "All the Madmen" by Clinton Heylin about the ideas around creativity and LSD in the late 60s/early70s. The usual suspects, Bowie, Syd Barrett and so on were featured but also the thoughts of RD Laing, interesting....
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Date: 2014-09-02 08:42 am (UTC)From:I think drugs don't bring anything new, creatively, they let people access different parts of themselves possibly, but you'd have to have those talents without drugs anyway. I've just finished reading a book called "All the Madmen" by Clinton Heylin about the ideas around creativity and LSD in the late 60s/early70s. The usual suspects, Bowie, Syd Barrett and so on were featured but also the thoughts of RD Laing, interesting....