![]() ![]() One of the pieces up for auction is signed by novelist Ken Kesey’s son Zane during the 2014 50th reunion of Kesey’s famous acid-fuelled bus trip across America described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Some of the artists are well known, while others are new to the scene. Haden has four items to auction off at the fundraiser plus dozens more they will be selling for a flat price. While much of it is focused around one image, others are simple repeated patterns across the sheet, with far out names such as orange sunshine, green fractal, and purple fire. ![]() Now collecting the LSD art has become hugely popular, with websites like eBay and selling the nostalgic paintings. So, many of the artists began re-creating some of the psychedelic images that were used on the original sheets of acid, as well as making their own new designs, to sell as art. Many never saw the the sheets, as they were torn apart and gobbled up at festivals before anyone could admire the work. “Just hang them on the walls.”Īrtists since the mid ’60s have been creating elaborate images on the LSD blotter paper, depicting anything from abstract designs to music icons like Jerry Garcia, mystical creatures, and of course flower power and free love. So don’t eat them,” he says, with a laugh. It’s beautiful … It is not infused with LSD. “This is the hidden psychedelic art of the 1960s. Considered the godfather of psychedelics, Shulgin is credited to introducing MDMA (ecstasy) to psychologists in the late 1970s for pharmaceutical use. “This (art) is completely legal,” says Haden, showing off one of the works to be auctioned, a rare collector’s item called Tantric Couple, signed by Alexander Shulgin. ![]() He is also the chairman of MAPS Canada, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, and part of a group of scientists that will auction off the art next month in Vancouver to raise money for a Phase 3 trial looking at how MDMA can be used to treat post traumatic stress disorder. Haden is an addictions counsellor and adjunct professor at the University of B.C.’s School of Population and Public Health. That’s because it’s blotter art, created to look like acid-soaked perforated paper, which is typically torn into tiny squares, or “hits,” popular with music festival trippers the world over - but sans LSD. The swirling kaleidoscope of oranges and purples on framed sheets of “LSD” art at Mark Haden’s Kitsilano residence may cause a flashback, but it won’t get you high.
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