![I’m glad you posted this. During her interview for Wooooo magazine, Michelle Maccarone talked about spending the entirety of her teen years on acid:
I honestly think that’s the reason I do what I do. […] I’m a true believer that once you’ve done acid, you’ll understand abstract logic. Abstraction and abstract concepts, conceptual thought, can only be considered when you’ve done a ton of acid. So when I was a kid, thinking about things I couldn’t resolve in my head, I would find the answers in art. I started off as a kid really interested in art, and around the same time I started doing acid. Someone told me what an art historian did or what an art historian was and I realized there was a profession in considering art, looking at art, analyzing art, preserving art etc.
Of course my initial response to this was that it’s one of those bullshit “I wear a tie to work now and need to justify my days as a dirty, irresponsible hippie” spiels, but at the same time it’s totally piqued my curiosity about acid and its effect on my ideas about art. Has it made a difference to yours?
kellykorova:
Katharina Grosse again.
I suppose the reason I like her work is because it reminds me of my nostalgia for acid. It’s hard to explain really. When you’re younger you hear the horrors of lsd and your mind creates these wonderful ideas of being in a different dream-like universe. You build it up and think it’s going to be great, and just like the somber morning when you realize that sex isn’t as great as the thought of sex, when you actually take it, you just get bitter becaues you realize either a.) the acid sucks in ohio just like every other drug, and b.)D.A.R.E really did lie to you.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/ZqLaEgxFQd5jatst0y9A0Jh4_500.jpg "I’m glad you posted this. During her interview for Wooooo magazine, Michelle Maccarone talked about spending the entirety of her teen years on acid:
I honestly think that’s the reason I do what I do. […] I’m a true believer that once you’ve done acid, you’ll understand abstract logic. Abstraction and abstract concepts, conceptual thought, can only be considered when you’ve done a ton of acid. So when I was a kid, thinking about things I couldn’t resolve in my head, I would find the answers in art. I started off as a kid really interested in art, and around the same time I started doing acid. Someone told me what an art historian did or what an art historian was and I realized there was a profession in considering art, looking at art, analyzing art, preserving art etc.
Of course my initial response to this was that it’s one of those bullshit “I wear a tie to work now and need to justify my days as a dirty, irresponsible hippie” spiels, but at the same time it’s totally piqued my curiosity about acid and its effect on my ideas about art. Has it made a difference to yours?
kellykorova:
Katharina Grosse again.
I suppose the reason I like her work is because it reminds me of my nostalgia for acid. It’s hard to explain really. When you’re younger you hear the horrors of lsd and your mind creates these wonderful ideas of being in a different dream-like universe. You build it up and think it’s going to be great, and just like the somber morning when you realize that sex isn’t as great as the thought of sex, when you actually take it, you just get bitter becaues you realize either a.) the acid sucks in ohio just like every other drug, and b.)D.A.R.E really did lie to you.")
I’m glad you posted this. During her interview for Wooooo magazine, Michelle Maccarone talked about spending the entirety of her teen years on acid:
I honestly think that’s the reason I do what I do. […] I’m a true believer that once you’ve done acid, you’ll understand abstract logic. Abstraction and abstract concepts, conceptual thought, can only be considered when you’ve done a ton of acid. So when I was a kid, thinking about things I couldn’t resolve in my head, I would find the answers in art. I started off as a kid really interested in art, and around the same time I started doing acid. Someone told me what an art historian did or what an art historian was and I realized there was a profession in considering art, looking at art, analyzing art, preserving art etc.
Of course my initial response to this was that it’s one of those bullshit “I wear a tie to work now and need to justify my days as a dirty, irresponsible hippie” spiels, but at the same time it’s totally piqued my curiosity about acid and its effect on my ideas about art. Has it made a difference to yours?
Katharina Grosse again.
I suppose the reason I like her work is because it reminds me of my nostalgia for acid. It’s hard to explain really. When you’re younger you hear the horrors of lsd and your mind creates these wonderful ideas of being in a different dream-like universe. You build it up and think it’s going to be great, and just like the somber morning when you realize that sex isn’t as great as the thought of sex, when you actually take it, you just get bitter becaues you realize either a.) the acid sucks in ohio just like every other drug, and b.)D.A.R.E really did lie to you.
