Sarah Schoenfeld’s ‘All You Can Feel’ Will Blow Your Mind

Drugs are great. Though, to not be wholly irresponsible, drugs can also be really not great. However, who’d’ve thunk it that you could have lots of fun with drugs without even taking them. I know I hadn’t. However, German artist Sarah Schoenfeld had thunk it, and decided to about creating art with the very essence of drugs. The common route to art via drugs being to take copious amounts and see what happens (see: the Romantic poets, the Beat generation, the 1960s, all your favourite albums), or in Salvador Dali’s case, in his own words, not taking drugs but being drugs…

Anyhow, bypassing the possibility of the really not great aspect of drugs Schoenfeld has used to drugs to make art in the quite literal sense. You see, what Schoenfeld did for her collection “All You Can Feel” is take liquid forms of various drugs, illegal and legal, then applied them to already exposed film negatives. Each drug then proceeded to work its magic with these pieces of film, as they might your fragile little noggin, some acting relatively quickly and others reacting for a considerable amount of time. Sound familiar?

These drugged up films were then blown up into nice display sizes, and have since been collected into a leather bound book for all you delightful people to fork out a pretty penny to get your grubby mits on. Some of the images have been put up on Schoenfeld’s site, but we’ve compiled a few for you to have a nose at here. You’ll see how each drug has impacted its own characteristics and colours upon the film. In some cases the result seems almost indicative of the way the drug impacts a user.

 

Cocaine

s.schoenfeld_AYCF_Cocaine.Planets

 

Ecstasy

s.schoenfeld_AYCF_Fantasy+Ecstasy.Maps_

 

Ketamine

Ketamine

 

Heroin

heroin

 

Crystal Meth

crystal meth

 

Caffeine

caffeine

 

LSD

LSD

Notice how cocaine appears to created its own little universe to be the centre of, with all lines leading to it, or how sort nightly and numb Valium looks, or how Heroin is so blissfully hazy and looks like it should be the cover for a shoegaze album, or how chaotic yet organised speed looks, or the existential crisis LSD has found itself in as it achieves ego death.

Aside from that, it all looks really cool, sometimes even quite pretty – Ketamine’s futuristic yet crystalline caverns for example. So, imagine look at these drug whilst on the drugs that made them, and then trying to recreate the art yourself under the influence. Drugception.

Note: Cultured Vultures does not condone, nor encourage, the following of that last suggestion.

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