≈₪≠₪≈ Best Bryan Lewis Saunders Drug-Induced Self-Portrait ≈₪≠₪≈

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Since March 30, 1995, multimedia artist Bryan Lewis Saunders has done one self-portrait per day, every day. When that started to get boring, Saunders began taking drugs of all types to liven up the work, a process he says has left him with brain damage.

images after the jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1c-tSVOBWQ

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Salvia Divinorum (right before but mostly right after) 2
Morphine IV (doseage unknown) 2
Marijuana (Kind Bud) 1
10mg Loritab 1
.5mg Risperdal (after 1 week prescribed) 1
Ritilin (doseage unknown-snorted) 1
Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset) 1
1 "Bump" of Crystalmeth 1
PCP 1
1 sm Glass of Absinth 1
10mg Adderall 1
7.5mg Percocet 0
2 Pot Brownies 0
50mg Zoloft (after 2 weeks prescribed) 0
Marijuana Resin 0
2mg Xanax 0
Valium I.V. (doseage unknown in hospital) 0
20mg Valium 0
100mg Seroquel 0
Nitrous Oxide / Valium I.V. (doseage unknown in hospital) 0
10mg Ambien 0
15mg Buspar (snorted) 0
4 Butalbitals (doseage unknown) 0
1/2 gram Cocaine 0
2 bottles of Cough Syrup 0
1 shot of Dilaudid / 3 shots of Morphine (in the ER with kidney stones) 0
Huffing Gas 0
Huffing Lighter Fluid 0
7.5mg Hydrocodone / 7.5mg Oxycodone / 3mg Xanax 0
Abilify / Xanax / Ativan (dosage unknown in hospital) 0
Nitrous Oxide 0
Ativan / Haloperidol (doseage unknown in hospital) 0


gr8080, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://media.bryanlewissaunders.org/artwork/zoloft.jpg
50mg Zoloft (after 2 weeks prescribed)

http://media.bryanlewissaunders.org/artwork/broughton4e.jpg
Ativan / Haloperidol (doseage unknown in hospital)

gr8080, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

voted salvia

gr8080, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

torn between absinth and buspar

the PCP portrait speaks volumes. Jeeeeeezus.

VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:42 (fourteen years ago)

surprised at his ability to make himself do these portraits while on drugs

wee-based god (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:44 (fourteen years ago)

I like the ones where he incorporated the drug into the drawing, as if the drug somehow became sentient & felt the need to imagebomb the poor guy's self-portrait.

I won't accuse him of creating these while sober, but I suspect that his enhanced creativity/weirdness is largely psychosomatic, like he's drawing what he thinks someone would draw if they were hopped up on PCP, etc.

anyways, I'm voting for shrooms.

the loneliness of the dexys midnight runner (unregistered), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:52 (fourteen years ago)

forks i knew you'd dig this poll

gr8080, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:56 (fourteen years ago)

these r p dope but i was def thinking like:

I won't accuse him of creating these while sober, but I suspect that his enhanced creativity/weirdness is largely psychosomatic, like he's drawing what he thinks someone would draw if they were hopped up on PCP, etc.

― the loneliness of the dexys midnight runner (unregistered), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:52 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:57 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELtGOB9uuM

are you there based god? it's me, markers (crüt), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:05 (fourteen years ago)

these all made me sad! i guess i vote PCP "best" :-/

positive reflection is the key (harbl), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:25 (fourteen years ago)

absinthe, cocaine, cough syrup & morphine = the best, don't know which to vote for, but prob absinthe

I won't accuse him of creating these while sober, but I suspect that his enhanced creativity/weirdness is largely psychosomatic, like he's drawing what he thinks someone would draw if they were hopped up on PCP, etc.

can see this cuz he obviously wasn't trying to prevent it, but his basic approach seems legit to me. like, the things that seem most satisfying to look at and do change radically depending on yr chemical circumstances.

normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

agree w/unregistered & cr?m

omar little, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:42 (fourteen years ago)

In terms of verisimiltude, I feel like 'huffing gas' teaches me all I'd ever be curious to know about huffing gas (w/o ever having to huff gas)

really like that he drew 'resin' w/ actual resin

objectively, it's b/w buspar, absinthe, cough syrup & ritalin

beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

did you guys catch the part that he's done a self-portrait every day since 1995, most not on drugs?

i think its fair that the day he does PCP he's all "ok PCP day here we go" and mixes it up

gr8080, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:44 (fourteen years ago)

who is his doctor, I wonder

based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

I won't accuse him of creating these while sober, but I suspect that his enhanced creativity/weirdness is largely psychosomatic, like he's drawing what he thinks someone would draw if they were hopped up on PCP, etc.

You should check out some of the other not-on-drugs stuff, a lot of that is equally out there.

emil.y, Thursday, 27 January 2011 00:59 (fourteen years ago)

taking drugs to make drawings to take drugs to

beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

1 bump of crystal meth
some of these are awesome

23 24 (Z S), Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:09 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 31 January 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I saw this guy perform a live film + spoken word set tonight. fuckin intense.

Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. (crüt), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:45 (fourteen years ago)

what was he on?

 (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:50 (fourteen years ago)

pabst blue ribbon

Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. (crüt), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:55 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBJCnnMdiFE

Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. (crüt), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:59 (fourteen years ago)

The "Nic bud marij" looks like the only one where he's "happy"...

Mark G, Friday, 16 September 2011 09:15 (fourteen years ago)

the PCP portrait speaks volumes. Jeeeeeezus.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:42 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 12:00 (fourteen years ago)


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