See What Happened When An Artist Tried 30 Kinds Of Drugs Before Doing A Self Portrait
by N/A, 9 years ago |
2 min read
Bryan Lewis Saunders is an adventurous portrait artist who has created more than 9,000 self-portraits. For this series, he used illegal and legal drugs before sitting down to draw himself. The differences are surprising.
1. Two psilocybin mushroom caps
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2. Marijuana
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3. Nicotine Gum after two months of not smoking
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4. 10 mg of Adderall
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/78f72989c9632eb2d01a836c8cce1536.jpeg)
5. 4 mg of Dilaudid
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6. Abilify/Xanax/Ativan (Unknown dosages, administered in hospital)
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7. 3 mg of Klonopin
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8. 60 mg of Geodon (an anti-psychotic)
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9. Huffing gasoline
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10. Snorting Heroin
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11. Sniffing lighter fluid
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12. One bump of crystal meth
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13. 15 mg of the anti-anxiety drug Buspar
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14. DMT (before and after)
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/c513269b6060edea0e6e127679112450.jpeg)
15. Butane Honey Oil (Cannabis)
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/6092bd5f788024e6313170870356815e.jpeg)
16. One shot of Dilaudid, Three shots of Morphine (while in the hospital for kidney stones)
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17. Hash
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18. Valium and Laughing Gas
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19. Two bottles of cough syrup
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/e7126cfdf52955a3f6db292ce530f390.jpeg)
20. 20 mg of Valium
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/06077c7e63d31e3734ebde26fa7cf5da.jpeg)
21. 251-NBOME (psychedelic drug)
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/dc12c25d1ae015051e7da430e550b8b1.jpeg)
22. 1/2 gram of Cocaine
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/9cec696081abc3107436b4c9130b013e.jpeg)
23. Unknown dosage of Butalbitals (pain reliever and relaxant)
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/c89764b5c88f7bfbcb9fc78a4f5fb954.jpeg)
24. Salvia Divinorum
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/86d23e185ea4f644919c714948b78e59.jpeg)
25. Bath Salts
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/79224dc5b5c4852314b228a5f0f847cf.jpeg)
26. Unknown dosage of morphine
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/ac318190bc421cb86e33af59b06151e3.jpeg)
27. 10 mg of Ambien
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/4350c5298852093705d413e92807250b.jpeg)
28. Two squirts of computer duster.
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29. Small glass of absinthe.
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/4f32bc011ef0c604b9a75944dbb9f1aa.jpeg)
30. 7.5 mg of Hydrocodone/7.5 mg of Oxycodone/3 mg of Xanax:
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Do not show me this again