An artist took the concept of self-exploration to a whole new level when she attempted to demonstrate the effect that LSD has on the brain by taking a small dose of the drug before getting to work on a series of self portraits.
After being inspired by the Nine Drawings series, a collection of sketches drawn by an artist on LSD as part of the U.S. government's 1950's research studies with acid, Reddit user whatafinethrowaway decided to ask her artist friend to recreate the same experiment.
'She spent between 15 minutes and 45 minutes on each drawing,' wrote whatafinethrowaway of her friend, who took 200 mcg (0.2 milligrams) of acid, which is considered the minimum amount required to produce psychedelic hallucinations.
'It didn’t seem hard for her to focus, I was actually quite impressed by that,' she said, before explaining that her friend drew a total of 11 self-portraits during the nine-hour acid trip.
The Reddit user added: 'She just loved what she was doing. I don’t know if the change of styles was on purpose or not.'
She said her friend drew the first portrait 15 minutes after taking the drug, when it had yet to produce any effect, resulting in a neat style of portrait, which is incredibly restrained in terms of color and expression.
After 45 minutes, the artist began employing bright colors in her self-portrait, but said she didn't feel any different.
Within two hours, however, the drawings became more abstract and began featuring additional colors; the portraits drawn after the two-hour mark use a rainbow of different shades, ranging from a bright orange in the hair to a vibrant pink for the skin tone.
Things took a turn for the eerie when the artist stopped drawing eyes in the portraits, telling her friend: 'I don’t feel like drawing the eyes.'
Of the 11 portraits drawn, seven were done with empty spaces in place of the eyes, giving each drawing an incredibly creepy, doll-like effect.
The artist's final drawing, completed nine hours and 20 minutes after taking the LSD, is less colorful than her previous portraits, suggesting she is coming down from the drug, however the comparisons between this and her first drawing are quite remarkable.
While the first picture showed a neat representation of the artist, the final image is far more abstract and much larger than the initial attempt.
And while there is at least a flicker of color in the eyes, it seems the artist was still not fully able to bring herself to draw a complete eye, even at the end of her trip.
(dailymail.co.uk)
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