New art show from Misha Hollenbach opening this Thursday night at Utopian Slumps gallery!!!
“FOREWARDS”
“Happendance
The most interesting breakthroughs occur when you are not seeking them. Just like Albert Hoffman, a research chemist in Basel, when he happenstanced onto LSD in 1943.
He was investigating fungi at the time – in the hope to synthesise its basic components to use in alternative compounds – when he was forced to stop working all of a sudden.
Hofmann explains: “I was seized by a peculiar restlessness […] an uninterrupted stream of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity and vividness and accompanied by an intense, kaleidoscope-like play of colors.” He discovered LSD.
LSD didn’t happen by chance alone. Albert Hoffman dropped some serious sagacity. And we should also take his trip. Unintentional actions can be better than theoretically tackling a problem head on. But it’s not just luck; you need the ability to recognise something you are not looking for as something more. Once you seize this fact, see the magic ‘shroom.”
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