A "fan" of mine from France asked me about old art of mine, and I've been answering questions ever since... One of the questions asked was about an odd drawing of "Saara Mar" that was unlike any other he had seen. And for good reason, it was one of two such drawings that I had done under the influence of LSD. I had friends back in the 1980s were for various reasons into the safer drugs – hallucinatory rather than speed or coke, that are addictive. I'd studied the literature on the subject, and decided to take them up on an offer to try acid, and see whether or not it was all that it was cracked up to be (no pun intended). I found it to be a disappointment -- no really interesting ideas visions at all, just a sort of buzz and difficulty focusing on anything. Is very difficult to draw, since one spot didn't really seem to belong to any other spot. Nevertheless, I did produce a pair of okay drawings that were someone unusual. I wonder whether I would have done the work entirely into colours this way, for example. At the end of the evening, I didn't find it to be a worthwhile experiment, though no harm came of it either. And I did discover that for an hour or two everything appeared to be oddly funny.