«I've wanted to do research into the mechanisms underlying LSD — and also psilocybin [the active ingredient in a kind of
psychoactive mushroom] and cannabis, since I set up the foundation,» she says.
Yet the shroud of negativity lifted under the influence of psilocybin, the
psychoactive ingredient in the hallucinogenic
mushrooms used in sacred Native American rituals.
A passionate classifier, Höller reintegrates even the mind - expanding fungal universe into a scholarly order of things, as he demonstrates in Double
Mushroom Vitrine (Twenty - Fourfold), a meticulously arranged visual taxonomy with a twist: Upon closer inspection, each mushroom specimen turns out to be a montage, with one half representing a variety of wild mushroom and the other the fly agaric known for its poisonous and psychoactive pro
Mushroom Vitrine (Twenty - Fourfold), a meticulously arranged visual taxonomy with a twist: Upon closer inspection, each
mushroom specimen turns out to be a montage, with one half representing a variety of wild mushroom and the other the fly agaric known for its poisonous and psychoactive pro
mushroom specimen turns out to be a montage, with one half representing a variety of wild
mushroom and the other the fly agaric known for its poisonous and psychoactive pro
mushroom and the other the fly agaric known for its poisonous and
psychoactive properties.