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Artist:
Bryan Lewis Saunders
Title:
Top right=Hash, top left=crystal meth, botom right= cocoaine, bottom
right=bath salts Dimensions: 8 1/2" x 11"
Media: metallic crayon
Date:
2001
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Background Info on Artist: Ryan
Lewis Sanders was born in 1969 in Washington dc is a performance
artist and performance poet known for his disturbing spoken word
rants, tragic art performances and stand up tragedies.
Information On Piece: March 30,
1995, Saunders began drawing at least one self-portrait every day for
the rest of his life. For 11 days in 2001, he started an experiment
were he took a different drug everyday and painted a self portrait
under the influence. This artist is part of landscape of the mind
because not everyone has a happy landscape some people tend to fall
into drugs or abuse alcohol and use art as an escape.
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