Thursday, 22 March 2012

Albert Hofmann

  When researching Francisco Infante-Arana, i came across a quote on a page containing Francisco's work.
"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance, all of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings"
I then looked into the quote and founf that it was said by Albert Hofmann, a Swiss scientist.
He is famous for synthesizing Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) in 1938. Whilst looking through his work, I saw that he had been sourced in The New York Times just before his 100th birthday.

The quote from the article, and that from Francisco's page, includes a description that was linked to the image below. Both the image and the quote must have inspired Francisco's work as I feel that they strongly link together.

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