The problem: Miss-educated and incorrect stigma surrounding psychedelic substances.
Provide an answer to the problem:
Reportage artwork depicting the medical, positive and life changing impacts and huge benefits of psychedelic use which challenges head on the stigma attached to them.
One persons story?- personal testimonials
Communicate how psychedelic experiences change lives for the better - such as drug addiction, PTSD etc - the substances and benefits essentially liberating someone from their disorder / addiction / lack of self / self-control
Aim: To educate, shock, challenge perceptions, provide an alternative view
...fight drugs (addiction etc) with psychedelic "drugs".
Notes:
• What is my aim: to educate, challenge stigma, change perceptions
• What tone of voice: educational, informative illustration. artwork with a purpose
• What do I want to do (approach / media / process): linocut, pen & ink, observational drawing, narrative, emotive, digital, colour - get good at communicating and educating through illustration and above media.
• What do I want to produce: posters of different experiences on different psychedelics?
information posters / pamphlet / self-help psychedelics pack? safe trip pack? A book / concertina book about one persons "trip" to liberation and self-rediscovery (real testimonials)- reportage
Names for the outcome / collection / book / series of practical responses:
"my savour psychedelics"
"saving psychedelics"
"the longest trip"
"a trip to freedom"
"a trip to liberation"
"a liberating trip"
A play on the word "trip"
- Trip relating to taking the substances and what the psychedelic experience is
- Trip relating to the journey
Synergy
Creates synergy between my dissertation, what liberation and freedom is for people with life effecting problems and fights stigma by showing the positive - life saving effects of these substances contrary to what people think