“These chemical cocktails [embedded in the paintings] can no longer reach the brain through the bloodstream and must take a different route to altering perception. In my work, they travel to the brain through the eyes.”
—Fred Tomaselli
Super Plant – Fred Tomaselli – Psychoactive plant material(cannabis), acrylic and resin on wood panel
Psycho Active Art
With some artists you can see the drug influences in their work. Artist Fred Tomaselli found a way to take his art higher…
Fred Tomaselli – cannabis leaves, pills, insects, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
Starting with a blank wooden canvas he pastes down everyday items like buttons and insects to make his visions appear. But to take his art truly higher, he also adds psycho active items such as pills and cannabis leaves right into his art…
A resin locks the finished piece in suspension to capture Fred’s Psycho Active Art visions…
Expulsion – Fred Tomaselli – cannabis leaves, pills, insects, acrylic, photocollage, and resin on wood panel
“For me, when I started to putting psychoactive material in the work the pot leaves and that sort of thing, I was really thinking about rearranging the use value of those objects instead of traveling through the blood stream to alter consciousness they travel through the eyeballs… You can use them over and over again instead of it being consumed dissolved and excreted… they can be inexhaustibly psycho active.”
-Fred Tomaselli
After Utah Saint – Fred Tomaselli – Marijuana leaves, pills, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
“I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work”
-Fred Tomaselli
Dead Eyed Bird Blast – Fred Tomaselli. Marijuana leaves, pills, photo collage, acrylic, and resin on wood panel