Drugs have always been about the mental and physical experience, but artist Sarah Schoenfeld has turned the tables on this notion with her new project called “All You Can Feel”. The twist is that no actual feeling is involved, at least not directly. Her project explores the chemical reactions that happen when film negatives are exposed to various mixtures of legal and illegal drugs. In other words, it shows how the effect of the drugs might looks like.
Schoenfeld used drugs like cocaine, heroin, ketamin, LSD, and a variety of popular club drugs. Every substance behaved in a different way and allowed the photographer to produce a range of exciting images – from the dauntingly dark sphere of adrenaline to an MDMA blob bursting with colors.
The stimulus for this project came from two different experiences: one is that Sarah used to work in a Berlin nightclub where the issue of drugs was very present. The second is her family – her father was on medication because of a mental illness. As she states, she was interested in the influence that drugs have on the self, the personality and the psyche.
Editor’s Note: If you like Schoenfeld’s work, check out Bryan Lewis Saunders’ drug-induced self-portraits and Matthew Cetta’s chemical film exposure experiments.
Website: sarahschoenfeld.de
Ketamine
Adrenaline
Crystal Meth
Fantasy+Ecstasy
Cocaine
Heroin
Caffeine
LSD
Magic
Methylone
Pharmaceutical Speed
Speed+Magic
Valium
Orphiril
MDMA
