Blotter art with a ruby slippers theme. Image Source: William Rafti – The William Rafti Institute – CC BY 2.5 The discovery of LSD-25 was one of the twentieth century’s greatest discoveries.

Mark McCloud, curator of the Institute of Illegal Images in San Francisco, is pictured among the many framed pieces of LSD blotter art, on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021.

Welcome to the Institute of Illegal Images, San Francisco's museum of LSD blotter paper art. Released on 02/19/2016 ...

The “blotter art” is a throwbacks to the 1960s and 70s. Back then, dealer sold the color sheets laced with LSD, commonly known as acid.

Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, by Erik Davis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Most art is meant to be seen, not eaten, and our immersion in visual imagery usually ends at the ...

He is the author, most recently, of Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium (MIT Press), a study of LSD blotter art. And that's what he's joined us to talk about. Erik also wrote one of my ...

The art blotter contains no LSD but the psychedelic spirit lives within it -- the joy and playfulness, the humor and mysticism and radicality. And it makes fascinating art, which Blotter is full of.

He served as vice chairman of the Artist Board at San Francisco Art Institute from 1977 until 1987, the year of his first blotter art show. McCloud got serious about collecting blotter in the early ...

McCloud surmises that most blotter art was created so manufacturers, dealers, and imbibers could identify the origins of the acid in their possession. There’s a guy in San Francisco who has more ...

Mark McCloud is the world's leading collector of " Blotter Art," which, for the more straight-laced set, is another way of saying he collects the small papers used to transport and relay acid, or LSD.