![]() ![]() ![]() Often the blotter paper was decorated with tiny insignia on each perforated square tab, but by the 1990s this had progressed to complete four color designs often involving an entire page of 900 or more tabs. McCloud says he could have easily gone from parish to parish, collecting hosts from a Catholic mass, where blank sheets of bread are stamped with an image of what appears to be the Holy Ghost, a dove flying and on the other side the name of the parish – “but since they don’t work anymore, I thought I’d collect an active host – the one that is bringing mysticism back to the people. LSD began to be put on blotter paper in the early 1970s and this gave rise to a specialized art form of decorating the blotter paper. LSD is available in saturated absorbent paper (e.g., blotter paper, divided into small. It can be seen as an alchemical artform, which, once consumed affects consciousness by taking the image into themselves. LSD is an odorless and colorless substance with a slightly bitter taste. He believes LSD to be a “renaissance pill” – a substance that has affected consciousness, and the arts in an incredible way. He thinks that by keeping examples of acid sheets, they can be part of a history that children can see, so the radical change in the 1960s can be understood as a renaissance. He saw collecting blotter paper as a way of “paying back the debt”. ![]() What happened to Mark McCloud was a “death-rebirth” experience on LSD in 1971 which took him around ten years to integrate. Among McCloud’s defence witnesses was New York art critic Carlo McCormick, who told the court that McCloud’s work is an important part of an American folk-art tradition. McCloud’s attorney argued that McCloud wasn’t resposible for the use of his prints by others as a vehicle for illegal drugs. None of the material had any traces of the drug. Designs ranged from a print of Peter Rabbit from the early 70′s to a recent example from Europe showing two lesbian aliens. It involved saturating absorbent blotting paper with liquid LSD. One popular way of distributing LSD was called blotter. In order to hide the drug, street chemists introduced the blotter method for consuming LSD. During a SWAT style raid by an FBI/DEA task force, police seized 400 framed LSD blotters and 33,000 sheets of McCloud’s own blotter art. After the US government made LSD illegal in 1966 people continued to use LSD, but it was manufactured and distributed through underground illegal channels. US Federal authorities spent millions on conducting wire-taps, monitoring mail and surveillance of McCloud. He is notorious in the annals of psychedelic art for his 25 year quest to compile a complete collection of LSD blotter art. Mark McCloud, who, with the possible exception of the FBI, owns the world’s largest collection of (now LSD-free) blotter was recently acquitted by a jury on charges of conspiracy to distribute the drug. ![]()
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