BLOTTER INDEX 1990's #2

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Jerry Garcia’s Art

This blotter showcases twelve of the late Jerry Garcia’s LSD inspired paintings, measures 10" inch x 7.5", comprising of 1200 hits, very thin paper, which as a strange net like pattern structure, this print was originally obtained from the Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images in S.F, and came to me via Ted Simcock, I have been told that the Jerry Art blotter had the privilege of appearing in a 90's DEA Microgram Newsletter, there seems to be at least two variants of this blotter, an earlier one from 95’ and this one from 98’(?), Mark McCloud  has  photographs of both on his Facebook page, a very rare and stunning psychedelic example of vintage blotter art, Circa 1998.

The other variant from 95’

[This photograph was found on Mark McCloud’s Facebook page]

Condors Flying Through the Electromagnetic Field

Mark McCloud’s California pride, the design features a Californian Condor flying through a somewhat psychedelic, geometric, multi-coloured, mind’s eye view of an electromagnetic field; the sheet is 7.5 x 7.5 inches and perforated into 900 1/4inch squares, apparently very good acid, around late 90’s – early 00’s, worldwide. Condors over Magnetic Fields rated around 120-150µg.

Dancing condoms

The images originated from a Brazilian safe sex advertisement, which illustrated the many different kinds of love, printed on both sides and twinned with the Pink Elephants on Parade blotter, both blotters belong to Mark McCloud’s dirty dozen, circulated in the late 90’s worldwide, some say that they were weak and others that they were strong, more than likely two separate batches, weak or not this is still a great blotter to look at.

Hearts & Ankh's/Fly in the Ointment

Circa 90’s, printed on textured paper this double sided sheet was perforated into 1000 tabs, I have been told that it may possibly have been laid with AL-LAD or another LSD analog, or it could have been plain old LSD, the only people that really know are the folks who dipped them, if anyone has any thoughts on this please let me know.

Fly in the Ointment [full sheet]

South Africa [sister sheet with the Fly-In-The-Ointment blotter above]

Leary Profile

Another one of McCloud’s dirty dozen, circulated late 90’s, This piece is known as Leary Profile. This was issued at a time when Leary knew that his death was fairly imminent. It shows a detailed, full size profile image of Tim, imposed upon a background of "smi2le" and other images. The term "smi2le" stand for a theory of Leary's: "Space Migration=intelligence2x life extension". Other images superimposed on the Leary profile include a the image of death on his left shoulder, which in turn is printed on "skulls" which are based upon famous alternative artist S. Clay Wilson`s "Jolly Roger" icon. The musical notes which appear on his face are from another of Tim`s favourite blotter pieces.

[Image taken from a PDF and not from the original blotter]

Leary Rainbow

Another one of McCloud’s dirty dozen, circulated late 90’s.

Alfred E Pluribus Unum

Mark McCloud’s homage to Alfred E. Neuman (of Mad Magazine fame) for his influence on the psychedelic community, designed by underground artist "The Pizz", combined with the E Pluribus Unum pyramid symbol which appears on the US Dollar, 7 ½ inches by 7 ½ inches square, and is comprised of 900 1/4inch hits, it was a popular blotter in California.

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Marilyn Monroe

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe first appeared in Amsterdam circa 2000, great print but was said to be low quality acid.

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