Yelawolf and manager/business partner Edward Crowe fully embrace the fact that they took copious amounts of LSD growing up and became intimately acquainted with the perforated (and often intricately designed) blotter paper. From unique psychedelic artwork to simple 2D symbols printed on each hit, the style was intriguing to Crowe. To Wolf, it symbolized the “effort and care of the dose.” As he told High Times, “The better the art, likely the better your journey will be.”
Crowe grew interested in making their own blotter art after implementing the style for Yelawolf’s 2021 album, Mudmouth, and its accompanying film with the help of longtime friend/visual artist Fernando Travis.
After two years of collaborating on the Edward Crowe x Slumerican Blotter Art campaign, Crowe and Wolf have returned with the third iteration, this time to honor Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann—widely credited as the first person to synthesize and ingest LSD—Hofmann’s annual Bicycle Day (April 19), a commemoration of his first LSD trip in 1943 and subsequent bicycle ride home to experience its effect, and the esoteric idea of amalgamation.
“Wolf and I have been close for many years,” Crowe explained. “We met when we were around 13. We have always been like brothers, but in the last three years or so, we have found a workflow and our version of a superpower between the two of us that I’ve never seen in any other partnership. We have a unique balance that allows us to stay on a consistent path of elevation. Almost like we have done this before over many lifetimes.”
And Wolf and Crowe wanted to communicate that with the blotter art. Amalgamation, which represents the process of two separate entities merging together to form one much more powerful energy or entity, is at the crux. The …
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Author: Kyle Eustice / High Times
