Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Eskilstuna

psychedelic cats

The pictures in this series were drawn by a professional artist.  The artist developed a mental illness, not as the result of taking drugs.  As the illness progressed, he continued to draw pictures of cats.  If we look at a series of his pictures, we can gain insight into the same type of changes that are produced by psychedelic drugs.

In the fourth picture of the series, the cat is still recognizable, but it has become stylized and almost surreal. In the next to last picture, we no longer see a cat but only forms of ears, eyes, and claws. In the final picture, the break with reality is complete. The artist can no longer distinguish what is real from what is unreal.