Homage to Hofmann commemorating the first LSD trip.

/////My first real LSD trip happened when I was 18. 3 friends of mine and I drove to a private party in the California desert and ingested a completely irresponsible amount of acid. There is part of me that will never be recovered, gone with that night. It was a significant milestone, a demarcation point between childhood and the adult I was to become. In exchange for my youth I was able to turn toward an extraordinary world filled with magic and synchronicity and art.

/////Created in Collaboration with Stable Diffusion using the ProtogenV22 model. I built the image up from a single output of a man on a bike riding through the Swiss Countryside. A total of some 200 outputs were then combined in Photoshop. I painted everything together to achieve a consistent aesthetic to create the final image. Total Time- 80 hours.