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OVERALL COVER DESIGN: Inspired by the psychedelic experience, I wanted to capture the visual creative essence of it while still honoring the cannabis plant. I envisioned the cover being a new door to the subject and the concept of “looking in” for the medicine and for the inner journey. Colour wise I wanted to go with a modern take on the patterned neon coloured visuals and integrate them into a storytelling theme of a quick history of LSD. 1) TEMPLE DOORWAYS: In the center is an illustration of temple doors within temple doors, each with its own scene. This represents oneself going within and taking the psychedelic journey and discovering. On each column is 3 sets of icons representing various aspects from historical to beneficial. The bottom corner bases feature the THC and LSD-25 molecule respectively. On top of the columns are a sphere of the globe and the space. 2) ERGOT: Featuring a few loaves of bread, representing Ergot the mold and how it grew. 3) RESEARCH: A book of knowledge represents the scientific foundations of the chemical and the continued study. 4) EXPANSION: A glowing diamond represents the feeling one can have while experiencing LSD. It also represents “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” 5) SPIRIT: A golden sacred sun representing the spirit and how it can align oneself with a spiritual understanding and glowing. 6) MEDICINE: A sacred geometrical shape represents the cellular structure and the research of medicinal connections of LSD. 7) CREATIVITY: 2 golden keys representing the unlocking of the the 2 hemispheres of the brain for new creative downloads and insight. 8) ALBERT HOFFMAN: The scientist that first discovered the psychedelic aspects of LSD-25, years after creation. 9) HIPPY LOVE: A crow chain of Daisies with a rainbow and sun representing the Hippy Culture and Era and the proliferation of LSD during the 60s-70s. 10) COSMIC BALANCE: Represents the cosmic consciousness and the facilitation of this mind heart state on proper LSD doses. 11) TIMOTHY LEARY: American psychologist that worked on the Harvard MDLEAF_MARCH_2020.indd 1

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Psilocybin Projct during 1960-62 which led to his strong advocacy of hullicinogenic drugs for therapeutic use in psychiatry. Coined popular phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out” 12) DOORWAY 2: Featuring a jungle like environment represent plant life, this scene features 2 neon jellyfish with a young lady looking through onto the next doorway. She looks up the rabbit as a representation of “going into the rabbit hole” 18) LOVE: Love is the ultimate technology and opens one up to receive and give loving kindness and relations. 19) DOORWAY 3: An island paradise in the shape of a head when viewed vertically, this area represents the inner paradise of happiness and love that LSD easily bridges into. A peacock stands happily in the middle representing the psychedelic pattern and inner revealing of ones mind. 2/23/20 10:53 AM

13) SANDOZ: A Swiss flag banner represents the home of Sandoz Laboratory, origin of LSD-25. 20) BICYCLE DAY: A man flying off his bike represents April 19, 1943 as the first day Albert Hofmann dosed himself with LSD.

14) CIA: The US CIA logo represents the usage and study of LSD through the government via the CIA, with multiple covert and hidden experiments held on the public on various aspects.

15) MIND: A phrenology mind map represents the study and focus of mental abilities, control, and expansion and LSD.

16) TRUTH: 2 swords representing cutting to the core of the truth of experience.

17) HEALING: a wreath representing healing and the insight LSD can give into opening up to those areas that still need acknowledgement. 21) FEED YOUR HEAD: Based off 60’s psychedelic song “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, this represents going into the rabbit hole and the Hippy era.

22) SACRED VISIONS: A close up of divine feminine representing the visual stimulus of LSD.

23) SAN FRANCISCO: The Golden Gate Bridge is represented here as a shoutout to Haight & Ashbury, home of Hippie culture and cannabis & LSD counter culture movements.

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Q&A | Founder Glen Trosch

What makes psychedelic art different from contemporary art?

Psychedelic art is art that was created to evoke, communicate or enhance the psychedelic experience. The imagery is generally influenced by that experience, rather than created under the influence of it, but not exclusively. What we specialize in at PAE are psychedelic concert posters that were being produced during the years 1965 to1971. This is the time when the social experiment that began in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood became a nationwide youth movement.

“Having grown up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, I saw the ‘hippie scene’ of the ‘60s influence mainstream pop culture in a big way.”

Where does your love for psychedelic art come from, and what does it mean to you?

I was born in 1963. I couldn’t avoid psychedelic imagery. Having grown up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, I saw the ‘hippie scene’ of the ‘60s influence mainstream pop culture in a big way. My family was in the magazine distribution business, so my first exposures were most likely through Mad Magazine, Playboy and National Lampoon.

When I started buying records as a young teen, the album cover art really turned me on. Artists like Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso and Greg Irons were some of the best album cover artists. When I started buying underground comix, I realized those same artists were dominant in that genre as well. I then found out that they also crossed over into the concert posters. My first concert poster purchase was at a record store I frequented when I was a kid. I bought a mirror that was superimposed over a Bill Graham Fillmore poster. That hung on my wall for years, but it wasn’t until I first traveled to San Francisco to see the Grateful Dead that I bought my first original psychedelic concert poster. It was all over then, I was hooked.

do art and music go hand in hand?

Yes, they are two sides of the same coin. They only differ in the sensory receptors that receive the stimuli.

Where do you source the art in the gallery? We are at the center of a worldwide two-way market. We primarily buy from the public, but occasionally we will buy at auction. We advertise heavily on the web to find the posters our customers are looking for. We also take consignments for our online auction. We are currently auctioning 200-400 lots per month.

Have you ever met or interacted with any of the artists whose work you sell?

Yes, I have had the honor of meeting many of the originators of 1960s concert poster art. I met Rick Griffin in San Francisco in the ‘80s. I have had the opportunity to speak with Mouse Moscoso and Wes Wilson in recent years because of PAE.

What is the most historic / iconic piece of psychedelic art that has ever been sold by you or others?

The most iconic would have to be the FD-26 - (Skull and Roses) that was created for a 1966 Grateful Dead concert at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. We sold a copy in May of 2019 for $56,000 and Heritage Auctions sold one last November for $118,000. The most historic would be the Grateful Dead Troopers Club poster that was the only poster ever created by Owsley. It’s at the heart of the birth of the Grateful Dead - it’s an incredibly important poster.

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