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Steve Mueller's avatar

I always think of him as fun to look at even if not "happy" fun. It's a hard emotion to describe and perhaps what you've described of his experience wirh heroin speaks to that. The relationship of drugs and art is one that's been overlooked in the sense that different drugs craft different sorts of lives not different sorts of physical vision. Nevertheless I was amazed that the first time I experienced psilocybe everything took on a Mesoamerican geometrical and sculptural flavor. But that was surface level. What you've been describing cuts deeper.

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Rogue Art Historian's avatar

The relationship between drugs and art is often misunderstood or oversimplified. Instead of influencing a purely visual transformation, different drugs tend to shape the emotional and psychological landscape of an artist's life. This doesn't just alter how they see the world but affects the way they experience it, the depth of their struggles, joys, and creativity. The drugs might not craft a different physical vision, but they shape a different internal reality, one that manifests in the art through their unique life experience and emotional framework.

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