The photographer was entranced when she first took LSD – but months of heavy usage led to satanic visions and a car crash. Now she has captured the experience in a book of unearthly pictures
he sky started to change slowly,” writes Sari Soininen in her photobook Transcendent Country of the Mind. “I could see and sense his rage from the movement of the clouds, which started to get darker and darker. It felt like I had stepped into the Book of Revelation.”
I walked into a hospital and told the nurse that she looked like the devil. They could see I was in a bad way Nature is both a celestial presence and a subliminally threatening one: trees resemble human torsos; cats appear demonic; a pothole is a portal into darkness. Here and there, humans loom into view, their faces smooth and pale and featureless or obscured by clouds of smoke. She also captures moments of luminous natural beauty: sunlight filtering though slats in a wooden fence; sinuous branches reflected in water.
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