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Documenting Psychedelic History 📖
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Madi Arteaga, the Los Angeles based artist behind @sunsetfreeway, creates dreamy affirmation focused digital collage art rooted in healing, nature, and personal experience.

Her work often centers pin-up style feminine figures set against soft gradients and dreamlike backdrops, channeling divine feminine energy, spirituality, and gratitude into every composition.

The visual language feels warm and intentional, blending soft color palettes with symbolic imagery that invites the viewer to slow down and simply feel something.

She built Sunset Freeway as her creative outlet, and the momentum truly took off when she left St. Louis, Missouri behind and moved to Los Angeles during the pandemic, trading the familiar for the unknown in pursuit of something bigger.

@sunsetfreeway continues to grow as a beloved corner of the digital art world, a body of work that treats art as a genuine offering rather than just something to look at. 🌀 by @trippylovepotion

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Ever wonder who your favorite artists look up to for inspiration?
For many in the art world, the answer leads back to @blankembrace.

His palette alone is enough to make his work instantly recognizable. There is a certain blue that only exists in his work. It wraps around every scene like the last hour before sunrise. Against that blue, small bursts of orange and red glow and draw all the attention.

Faces rarely appear in his pieces, letting shadow and silhouette carry the emotion instead.
That choice pulls focus toward posture and gesture, giving each figure a quiet sense of presence

Look closely and you will find tiny points of light scattered through every piece, catching the eye like glimmer on water. That fine detail rewards a second and third look, revealing more each time you return to it.

His work has quietly become a reference point for other artists chasing that same depth and detail.
Pieces from his portfolio have been displayed internationally, reaching galleries and audiences across many countries.

All artwork by @blankembrace by @trippylovepotion

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@toastedbyeli brings to life a vintage storybook style with modern messages about healing and growth.

The choice of retro illustration gives each piece a warm and nostalgic feeling. Soft color palettes and textured linework invite the viewer to slow down and breathe. 🍃

Pairing gentle wildlife and childhood imagery with short affirmations makes every message easy to carry through the day. The messaging in this collection speaks straight to the heart.

It reminds us that progress happens little by little and that peace belongs to the present moment. Words like these feel like a friend checking in at exactly the right time.

Art with this kind of kindness has a way of staying with you long after you scroll past. Take this as your sign to find time for yourself today and give your mind some rest. ☀️

All artwork by @toastedbyeli 🌀

#vintageillustration #retroart #selfcare #illustrationart by @trippylovepotion

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Imagine seeing your entire life as one shape, from your first breath to your last. This 4D art piece by @ze.zima stretches each person across the landscape like a ribbon, with childhood at one end and old age at the other.

In physics, the fourth dimension is time, and every life draws a continuous path through it called a worldline. Here those paths cross and braid together, linked by threads of light that run from one life into the next 🌀

It reads like a visual map of reincarnation, with each soul flowing into new bodies and new stories. In the final scenes the figures drift into open space and become crystals of light, all rising from the same source. Artists have explored the fourth dimension for over a century, from the Cubists to Salvador Dalí and his painting Corpus Hypercubus.

Psychedelic and visionary art carries that tradition forward and gives us a window into how consciousness might see time. When every life is part of one connected pattern, each act of kindness echoes through all of it 🧿 by @trippylovepotion

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I always light up when a new Pixelord piece lands on my feed. 🍄 @pixelord.eth is a Moscow based glitch artist and electronic musician who turns everyday video into pure motion and color.

I love how his work makes the digital world look alive and almost organic. His pixel tearing technique pulls every frame apart until leaves, hands and sky flow together like wet paint.

My favorite part is how he lets nature and technology blend into one living picture. Watching his videos feels like stepping into a dream that keeps rewriting itself. 🌀

Pixelord, born Alexey Devyanin, has spent over a decade making IDM and bass music and performing it with his own visuals. He’s on music platforms as well like Spotify. You can feel that rhythm in his glitch art, where every stutter and break lands like a beat.

He shows how a digital glitch can open up new ways of seeing the world around us.

Artwork by @pixelord.eth by @trippylovepotion

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By 1975, Iggy Pop was finished. 🎤

The Stooges had collapsed, he was homeless in Los Angeles and using heroin heavily.

Eventually he walked into the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and admitted himself. Almost nobody visited. The industry had written him off, and most of the people around him had stopped answering.

He has said the ward staff were surprised anyone came at all. David Bowie came, and he came repeatedly.

By his own account he mostly showed up with drugs in his pocket, which Iggy has always found funny rather than heroic. When Iggy got out, Bowie took him on the Station to Station tour as a friend with no job.

Then he moved them both to West Berlin, two addicts trying to get clean in a divided city where nobody was interested in either of them. They shared a flat in Schöneberg.

Bowie made “Low” and “Heroes.” Iggy made “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life. Bowie played piano on Iggy’s albums and never put his name on the front.

“Lust for Life” is a song about coming out the other side, written by two people who were not sure they would. 🌀

🎵 Iggy Pop, “Lust for Life” by @trippylovepotion

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David Bowie tried LSD three times, and he never needed it to make music. 🎨

Speaking to Playboy in 1976, he explained:

“I did [it] three times. It was very colorful, but I thought my own imagination was already richer. Naturally. And more meaningful to me. Acid only gives people a link with their own imagery. I already had it. It was nothing new to me. It just sort of made a lot of fancy colors. Flashy lights and things. ‘Oh, look. I see God in the window.’ So what? I never needed acid to make music.”

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he found his inner world vivid enough without it.

In the 1997 documentary “Inspirations,” he reflected on why people become artists in the first place.

For him, making art was a way to understand yourself and to find where you fit within society.

He suggested that this only works when artists resist the pull of expectation.

Once creation becomes about satisfying an audience, the work loses its exploratory edge.

He believed the best art happens when the artist pushes past what feels comfortable and enters territory where the outcome is uncertain.

That idea mirrors how many artists and thinkers describe psychedelics as creative tools.

Substances like LSD can loosen the structures that keep perception predictable, moving the mind into places it doesn’t usually go.

Bowie’s view points to something that applies to both.

The substance isn’t the source of insight, and at most it opens a door.

What matters is the mind that walks through it, and the willingness to go somewhere unfamiliar once you do. 🌀

Source: Michael Apted’s “Inspirations” (1997), Playboy. by @trippylovepotion

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Rest in peace, David Bowie. 🕊️

In 1973, Bowie sat down with Russell Harty on ITV, still dressed as Ziggy Stardust. It was his first full televised interview in the UK.

Harty asked him about being David Bowie, and he took a moment before answering.

He said he could take on the guises of the people he met, even switching accents within seconds.

He called himself a collector who had always seemed to collect personalities and ideas, with a “hotch-potch philosophy.”

The comment stuck so well that the BBC documentary Cracked Actor was first going to be called The Collector.

Behind the characters was David Robert Jones, born in Brixton in 1947.

His older half brother Terry Burns introduced him to jazz and the Beat writers, and Bowie often credited him as an early influence.

He became a father in 1971 with the birth of his son Duncan.

In 1976 he moved to Berlin, sharing an apartment with Iggy Pop.

In 1992 he married Iman, and in 2000 their daughter Lexi was born.

In later years he stepped back from the spotlight and spent that time at home in New York with his family.

He died on January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar.

The collector left behind plenty to collect. 🌀 by @trippylovepotion

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The intro to Common Side Effects sets the tone for the entire show before a single line of dialogue lands. 🍄

Hand drawn textures, organic shapes, and shifting color wash across the screen in a sequence that feels closer to a moving painting than a title card.

The animation leans into natural forms, with fungal growth and bodily imagery blending into each other in ways that feel both beautiful and slightly unsettling.

Joseph Bennett (@joe_bennett_animation)co created the series, bringing the same visual instincts that made his earlier work so distinct.

Anyone who watched Scavengers Reign already knows how singular his approach to world building is.

That show built an alien ecosystem so detailed and strange that it felt genuinely discovered rather than designed, and it deserves every bit of praise it received.

Bennett has a rare gift for making the natural world feel vast, indifferent, and quietly alive.

Common Side Effects carries that same sensibility into a story grounded much closer to home. 🎬

The intro is a short reminder that animation can still surprise people when an artist trusts their own vision completely. by @trippylovepotion

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Everybody Rides the Carousel is a 1976 animated film by John and Faith Hubley featuring early voice work from Meryl Streep. 🎠

The film brings psychologist Erik Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development to life.

Each stage appears as a ride on a carousel, guiding viewers on a journey from infancy to old age.

Along the way, the story explores trust, identity, love, and the wisdom that comes with later life.

The Hubleys were known for their painterly style and their use of improvised voice performances. 🎨

The pair won several Academy Awards and helped shape the history of independent animation in America.

Streep recorded her part early in her career, shortly before her rise to film stardom.

The result is a thoughtful meditation on what it means to grow, change, and connect with others. 🌱 by @trippylovepotion

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🌙 @ankers____ One flick of a lighter opens up a dreamy journey in this animation by Leeds illustrator Megan Ankers. 🎨

Megan describes her illustration style as expressive, and she shapes that energy with precise design and an editorial eye.

She loves drawing characters and giving personality to everyday things, which you can feel in every frame.

Her portfolio also spans illustration, projects on drag and voguing, and community workshops.

Personally, this piece moved me more than I expected.

It captures how a small ritual can turn into wonder and make the night feel alive ✨

Each time I watch it, I feel a warm sense of connection to the sky and to the people who share it with us. by @trippylovepotion

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The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 comedy inspired by Jon Ronson’s book about a secret US Army unit that explored psychic powers. 🐐

George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey lead the cast.

Near the end of the film, Lyn Cassady and Bill Django add LSD to the water supply at a military base.

Soon the soldiers begin to laugh, dance, and see the world through new eyes. 🌈

In the middle of this shared trip, the goats are set free.

The scene turns a place of strict order into a moment of collective joy.

To me, it is one of the funniest and most hopeful moments in the movie.

I love how the film uses humor to ask big questions about war, peace, and human potential. ✨ by @trippylovepotion

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