Wortz, a psychologist, was investigating states of sensory deprivation, especially in relation to the disorientation and
hallucinatory effects on humans that result from immersion in uniform fields of light and colour, once reference points such as objects and horizons have been removed.
Not exact matches
(My friend Martim Avilez, who fought in that war and never forgot, recently died in an institution for badly damaged veterans... so it was
on my mind, but Costa's work has a
hallucinatory effect...) Because it's easy to fall in love with Ventura.
In the paintings, works
on paper and sculptures at Kent Place, one can see Dagley developing a wide range of artistic possibilities, including
hallucinatory optical and retinal color
effects, intense patterns, contradictory painterly spaces and geometric constructions.
In Night Soil # 1 / Fake Paradise the artist looks at the
effects of the
hallucinatory herbal drug, Ayahuasca,
on women users and challenges modern medicinal methods.
Siebren Versteeg and Joe Grimm are like neuro scientists.They carefully manipulate dials and press buttons to examine how those produce different
effects on the human body,
effects that are often
hallucinatory.
«The DNA of the earth; gems, minerals, meteorites, desert landscapes; and
hallucinatory states have all taught me about color and its
effects on mood,» Huanca explains.
His art is figurative and often based
on photographic images, but the end
effect is to take us into a completely different world of often
hallucinatory power.