Don't Try This At Home! Artist Draws 30 Self-Portraits On 30 Different Drugs
by N/A, 9 years ago |
3 min read
Performance artist, poet, and videographer, Bryan Lewis Saunders, told Wired magazine that he decided to draw a self-portrait of himself every day for the rest of his life so he could "die knowing that [he] tried to experience as much as possible when [he] was alive." He's created almost 10,000 self-portraits so far.
Not too long ago, he decided to take things a big step further by drawing his self portraits on drugs. In 30 days, Saunders took 30 different drugs - some legal, some not - and drew 30 different pictures of himself. While such an experiment is incredibly ill-advised, and we do not condone or advise it, it is fascinating to see the chemical and psychological effects caused by each substance through the ways in which they altered Saunders' self-perception.
1. Small glass of real absinthe:
2. 15 mg of Buspar (an anti-anxiety medication):
3. Two squirts of computer duster:
4. One shot of Dilaudid and three shots of Morphine (he was in the hospital for kidney stones):
5. Ablify/Xanax/Ativan (unknown dosage in hospital):
6. Butane Honey Oil (Cannabis):
7. A bump of Crystal Meth:
8. 60 mg of Geodon (anti-psychotic medication):
9. 3 mg of Klonopin (medication to treat seizure or panic disorders):
10. Marijuana:
11. 20 mg of Valium (mostly used to treat anxiety disorders):
12. Unknown dosage of Butalbitals (pain reliever and relaxant):
13. Two Psilocybin Mushroom caps (psychedelic mushrooms):
14. 10 mg of Ambien (sedative and sleep aid):
15. 1/2 gram of Cocaine:
16. Bath Salts:
17. 10 mg of Adderall (medicine to treat narcolepsy and ADHD):
18. DMT during and after (powerful hallucinogenic drug that affects consciousness):
19. Two bottles of cough syrup:
20. Hash (a product of Cannabis):
21. 4 mg of Dilaudid (narcotic pain reliever):
22. Unknown dosage of Nitrous Oxide/Valium in hospital (laughing gas + Valium):
23. Salvia Divinorum (psychoactive plant that can induce visions):
24. Unknown dosage of Morphine:
25. 7.5 mg of Hydrocodone/7.5 mg of Oxycodone/3 mg of Xanax:
26. Sniffing lighter fluid:
27. Huffing gasoline:
28. Snorting Heroin:
29. 251-NBOME (psychedelic drug):
30. Ativan/Haloperidol (dosage unknown in hospital):
