Although his school still subscribed to practices of corporal punishment for misbehavior, it had a very unique policy when it came to drugs: as long as you told a teacher what you were taking, there’d be no consequences. McCloud’s interest in psychedelics also began during that era.
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“The minute I saw SF back in ’65, I said, ‘When I grow up I want to live there.’ It was the first free city I had ever seen in my life,” he says. Mark McCloud shows off his psychedelic LSD-themed shirt, at the Institute of Illegal Images in San Francisco, on Thursday, Nov. McCloud’s love affair with the city began on a teenage trip from Los Angeles, where he attended boarding school after being sent away from his native Argentina to avoid political violence. Wearing a black sports jacket and fedora over a shirt patterned with rainbow pyramid blotter art, he looks every bit the on-again-off-again art professor, a relic of the city’s turn-on-tune-in-drop-out past. McCloud is the type of San Franciscan who is in short supply these days.
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That was my second trial, the first was from Operation Looking Glass from ’93.” That initial trial inspired one of many pieces of blotter art that McCloud created himself, a double-sided print depicting Alice’s journey through Wonderland. “I was the first one who suffered the indignity of the new law,” says McCloud. Charles Russo/SFGATEĪlthough he certainly holds court over a psychedelic kingdom, the charges of distribution under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act passed in 2000 didn’t stick, and he was acquitted a year later, thanks partially to art critics called to his defense. Even so, McCloud was threatened with life imprisonment after police tapped his phone and raided the institute to seize 400 framed pieces of art.Ī pair of cosmic-themed LSD blotter art sheets framed inside Mark McCloud's Institute of Illegal Images, in San Francisco. The works of art on display in the institute are either reproductions of vintage designs or have long since faded to brown, indicating they’ve lost their potency.
McCloud is the longtime proprietor of the Institute of Illegal Images, a well-lived-in gallery that’s devoted to “blotter art,” which refers to the imagery printed on perforated paper that was dipped in the liquid LSD before being torn into tabs for distribution. Take one step into his longtime home in the Mission and it’s not hard to see why: hundreds of thousands of tabs of LSD line the walls of his entry room alone. Drug Enforcement Administration, Mark McCloud is a kingpin. Charles Russo/SFGATEĪccording to accusations from the U.S. Mark McCloud, curator of the Institute of Illegal Images, gives a tour of his many LSD-related artifacts, on Thursday, Nov.
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