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(Photo: A new look at Heroin)

Presented in the aptly titled ‘All You can Feel’ collection, photographer Sarah Schönfeld has taken a fascinating insight to the aesthetic intricacies of favourite drugs. Forget fun prints on pills (Snoopy Speed, anyone?), the photos intimately discover the secret art of narcotics.

Getting up close and personal with MDMA, heroin, speed and ketamine amongst others, Schönfeld exposed a single piece of film to a dark background before diluting single drops of the drugs in water or alcohol on the negative as the film developed.

In a spectacular result, the photos boldly articulate the vision of a drug. When asking what the effect of a drug might look like – the photos ring true to bodily sensation. The artist willed to explore the sensation/vision divide whilst working at infamous Berlin nightclub Berghain.

Breaching the alchemy/magic/mystery divide which plagues the experience of users, Schönfeld explained her interest to Kaltblut Magazine;

‘…drugs offer an easily consumable access to a mystic experience… So ritualised, collective, drug use is culturally speaking as ancient as human history.’

Have the mystic experience below (with a no comedown guarantee).

Opium

Ecstasy

Speed + Magic

Ketamine

MDMA

LSD