Perception of the Self

Bryan Lewis Saunders' self portrait drawn after using morphine.

Bryan Lewis Saunders, an artist from Washington D.C., has been drawing one self-portrait  a day since '95. 

"Like fingerprints, snowflakes and DNA they are all different, no two are the same.  For hundreds of years, artists have been putting themselves into representations of the world around them.  I am doing the exact opposite," Saunders stated. "I put the world around me into representations of myself as I find this more true to my Central Nervous System."

To aid his self-portrait task, Saunders devised an experiment which involved taking a different drug everyday to see what impact it would have on his portrait. 

Check out the link below to see the collection.

http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/