This is all kinds of cool, and everything your mother told you not to do. Bryan Lewis Saundersis an artist from Washington D.C., not just any artist though. Saunders prefers to take a more unconventional approach to his artwork.
Arguably his most interesting project, entitled DRUGS is described as follows:
“After experiencing drastic changes in my environment, I looked for other experiences that might profoundly affect my perception of the self. So I devised another experiment where everyday I took a different drug and drew myself under the influence. Within weeks I became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage. I am still conducting this experiment but over greater lapses of time. I only take drugs that are given to me.”
Below, you can view a collection of portraits Saunders drew while under the influence of various substances ranging from cocaine, to marijuana, to DMT. Each portrait is an astonishing look into the mind of someone tweaked out on drugs, something that your eyes will surely appreciate.
Abilify / Xanax / Ativan
90mg Abilify
1 sm Glass of “real” Absinth
10mg Adderall
10mg Ambien
Bath Salts
15mg Buspar (snorted)
4 Butalbitals
Butane Honey Oil
250mg Cephalexin
1/2 gram Cocaine
Computer Duster (2 squirts)
2 bottles of Cough Syrup
1 “Bump” of Crystalmeth
4mg Dilaudid
1 shot of Dilaudid / 3 shots of Morphine
DMT
60mg Geodon
Hash
Huffing Gas
Huffing Lighter Fluid
7.5mg Hydrocodone / 7.5mg Oxycodone / 3mg Xanax
3mg Klonopin
10mg Loritab
Marijuana (Kine Bud)
G13 Marijuana
Morphine IV
Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset)
2mg Nicotine Gum
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous Oxide / Valium I.V.
PCP
7.5mg Percocet
2 Pot Brownies
1 Glass of Pruno
Marijuana Resin
4mg Risperdol
Ritilin (doseage unknown-snorted)
Salvia Divinorum (right before but mostly right after)
100mg Seroquel
100mg Trazadone
20mg Valium
Valium I.V. (doseage unknown in hospital)
Valium IV, (Albuterol, Saline & Oxygen) mixture
2mg Xanax
50mg Zoloft (after 2 weeks prescribed)
10mg Zyprexa
Ativan / Haloperidol (doseage unknown in hospital)
More info on Saunders can be found at his personal website.
