12/16/2023 0 Comments Lsd blotter art types psychedelic“It adds an element of trust, so that when you take LSD you know the people who made it took an extra step,” says Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Assn. Drug Enforcement Administration has counted more than 350 designs since blotter art began appearing, although collectors say there are as many as 1,000 designs floating around.īecause the manufacture of LSD is so underground and illegal (the DEA estimates only a handful of people make all of the acid in the world), hardly anyone knows who these anonymous artists are or why they do what they do. A popular design depicts Beavis and Butt-head in rock-on mode. To this day, that tradition has continued. The first designs were indeed iconographic-Mickey Mouse in his “Fantasia” outfit or a spoof of the FBI seal. “They’re fairly worked out iconographic concepts.” “There’s this real strong connection with Pop Art,” says New York’s Kastor. Collectors are doling out as much as $300 for a piece of blotter art about the size of a paperback book cover, especially if it’s signed by such psychedelic luminaries as Timothy Leary or LSD inventor Albert Hofmann. Blotter art is yet another counterculture icon that has found its way into the consciousness of legitimacy-like Jerry Garcia neckties. It may be magic (or not), but now it’s worth money-as art. “ Art is not a big enough word for it,” McCloud says. His San Francisco-based collection of 150 stamps and sheets has toured the United States with the help of two National Endowment for the Arts grants he has received in the last 10 years. He is the guru of a new wave of “blotter art” collectors who value the designs on old stamps (“hits”) and sheets (not unlike sheets of stamps) of acid. You see, McCloud’s little stamps are laced with LSD. And as you spend it you get richer, not poorer.” That’s the tricky thing with this currency. “Sometimes,” says the 40-year-old artist, “you break into your stamp collection and eat ‘em. Sometimes he finds the activity to be gut-wrenching, mind expanding and a downright trip. Mark McCloud is one of the premier stamp collectors in the United States.
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