![]() – What was your first blotter art creation ?.– What has blotter art brought to your creative process?Ĭlose to finishing my True Sacrament design I had to smile when I heard the muse whispering: “When these ever get activated it will be for the first time in history (of blotter-art) that upon the product will be pictured what is within the product” – Claviceps purpurea, or Ergot, or ‘Mutterkorn’ (mothercorn) – the mother of LSD.In this sense the print on the blotter may even be part of the ‘set and setting’, which plays an important part of the outcome of a psychedelic journey into the soul. Within the synergistic realms of an LSD-experience, in which many things become a multi-facetted deeper meaning, it therefore is of utter importance how the mind is triggered or even meta-programmed by one of the last symbols you saw before your psychedelic journey. I guess we have to view blotter as a form of media, a) in the sense that they are carriers of the mind-altering substance LSD and b) as they carry a symbol, logo or cartoon character upon them. – What do you feel makes blotter art a unique art form ?.We were planning to continue to produce blotters together, but now that Paul has died I and many others lost that connection. My work was printed and perforated in the UK by the (then largest) blotter producer Monkey aka Paul Guest, for my 2018 vinyl compilation set ’75 Years Ov LSD – Birthing the Inner Spiritual Child’. – Who printed and perforated your pieces then and now ?.The ‘True Sacrament’ blotter is the only blotter I’ve produced up to know. – How many blotter art pieces did you make ?.Mark McCloud, Boris Hiesserer and Paul Guest. All the other editing to the former church graphic were already in place, as this picture is the main key-graphic for the LSD web-archive: As a former member of the ‘European College for Consciousness Research’ (ECBS), I did not hesitate to mention my real name when Monkey asked for the work title and the designers name. So Paul and I did choose the late 1890’s communion picture with it’s German text transformed into English – so the meaning would be understood more easy by more people. Here I met blotter artist pioneer Mark McCLoud again and got his request to create a blotter from one of my art designs, in cooperation with his friend and colleague Paul Guest (RIP). When visiting the ‘Science & Fiction’ Festival on drugs, in Basel, Switzerland in 2018 I held a lecture on the ‘Cultural History of Ergot’. – What drew you into creating your own blotter art ?.Mickey – Sorcerer’s apprentice Blotter art (close up of a reproduction) Tetragrammaton Blotter art (close up of a reproduction) Purple Oms Blotter art (close up of a reproduction) Superman Blotter art (close up of a reproduction) And around the age of 18 the ‘Tetragrammaton’ blotter ‘Trip’ (as we Germans call a single hit) triggered my first breakthrough experience – even if then I couldn’t view the experience as a shamanic initiation, as the cultural knowledge and context was still missing by that time. In the later ’70’s within the underground drug culture blotters with Superman or Mickey Mouse or sanscrit Om’s printed upon them found their way to me. – How and when did you discover blotter art ?.With the creative tools nowadays accessible – analogue or digital – everyone (who dares) has uncountable options to gain artistic expression, as well as worldwide distribution. I documented and translated their talks and released a book entitled ‘Ecce Panis Angelorum – Holy Technologies of Visionary Culture’ about plant sacraments aka spirit molecules, the mother and the father of LSD, ancient fertility- and mystery-cults, holism and transcendance. As an autodidact-expert in alchemy and shamanism and a member of the global consciousness-research community I worked under and with Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Sasha Shulgin and even Albert Hofmann. I am a freelancer and as a media-artist working with all kind of media. ![]()
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