Hallucinogens

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Maybe the psychedelic trip you need to take is giving yourself a good long look in the mirror and really being honest with yourself. Are you happy? Why not? What’s something small you can change or improve upon? Ask yourself the tough questions. You will not become who you want to be if you are too attached to who you have been. There's nothing more trippy than realizing you have the power to grow and alter your own thoughts. You are in charge. Thoughts are seeds and if you do not like the fruit you are producing, it is time to uproot the mindsets that do not serve you. Take the trip looking inward. You deserve to live your best life.

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John Crowther
John Crowther Critic

June 22, 2022

Summer Breeze’s Hallucinogens is a Pop Art-rooted provocation to radical perception. Whether one has taken or would take psychedelics is secondary to the ideas that drive those who advocate their use. There are many ways to expand the bounds of one's perception, but psychedelics are guaranteed to do so. A pleasant or helpful experience is far from certain, but their utility in such endeavors is impossible to ague: they will definitely alter one’s perception. Becoming unmoored from one’s subjective understanding of the world and self can be terrifying but also freeing and enlightening. Ironically the thing that most concerns people about such a practice is perhaps the most liberating result: ego-death.

Obliterating one’s sense of self sounds frightening (again, psychedelics are not the only means to arrive at this state), but there is nothing more freeing and blissful than temporarily abandoning one's allegiance to self. All our concerns, discomforts, and traumas are connected to the self. Once we leave our individualistic perceptions in the dust, we are liberated from any misery or doubt we have ever experienced. Now, this is not a sustainable approach to existence, but temporarily escaping the prison of our personalities can bare extraordinary results. The first time I had such an experience was through art, perhaps the foundation for my fascination with artistic expression. When I was ten years old, I went to MoMA and wandered upon Jackson Pollock’s One: Number 31, 1950. I completely forgot who I was and where I was until a man sneezed loudly. To this day, I remember my irritation at this intrusion. I felt as if this stranger had robbed me; I was furious he brought me back into my body and out of the enigmatic drips of Pollock’s brush. I have been chasing this “high” ever since, and art has, time and again, proven to be a path to remembering how much of the world exists beyond the parameters of my own experience and subsequent anxieties.

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Summer Breeze
Summer Breeze Creator

June 22, 2022

John, thank you for your thoughtful words. It's incredible that art gives us the opportunity to abandon our selves whether you are the creator or the viewer.

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John Crowther
John Crowther Critic

June 28, 2022

I couldn't agree more! we could all use a little ego-death sometimes

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Summer Breeze
Creator
Category
Psychedelic, Pop Art
Type
Painting - Unframed
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Dimensions
24.00 inches wide
30.00 inches tall
1.50 inches deep
Weight
4.00 lbs
Location
Carlsbad, CA, US
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