Blotter paper was on display at the Fifty24SF
gallery. Vintage and new stuff, ubiquitous and rare stuff. The show
was called "Take It" and the paper / art / acid(?) on display
was from the collection of Mark McCloud. It got me thinking, as
psychedelics are apt to do, what an amazing drug LSD is. It spawns massive
amounts of inspiration, creativity, ingenuity, and for some - enlightenment.
There aren't many drugs (other than a handful of plants that have
been called psychedelic "drugs") that can even come close to
facilitating human progression, deep insight, a sense of spiritual belonging,
and consciousness. The intricate patterns, bright colors, portrayals of
emotion (comical, frightened, blissful) were on display here, on
teeny-tiny pieces of paper. That's how much LSD excited and inspired
people, they even wanted to create art on the little piece of paper they ingested
- taking it all in.
David Wilson and Francesco Spagnolo
This mysterious show is at the Jewish
Contemporary Museum and premised on a Hebrew word relating to the concept
"form [or out of] out of the depths". David and Francesco came
together to explore this concept via artifacts and objects discovered by David
in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and
Life at UC, Berkeley. Penciled word associations and drawings of things
were created by David, whereas Francesco added pontifications and
definitions to the collaborative effort. And to really top off the hard-to-explain, rambling,
associative nature of this exhibit a strange band called "Fantasy
Bracelet" gathered in a circle, adorned in robes, and played desert
dweller spaced out mystical music.
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Band: Fantasy Bracelet
