It was an honor to have been invited to contribute two new works — INFINITE UNION and IF ONLY I WOULD BE A FLOWER OF LIFE — to the groundbreaking exhibition HIGHER LOVE: The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality, at the Museum of Sex in NYC.
Created specifically for this exhibition, these pieces reflect on the evolution of intimacy, censorship and ecstatic experience. We are grateful to have joined this important cultural dialogue and to stand alongside fellow artists and revolutionaries exploring the transformative intersection of art, identity, and expanded states of being.
FEATURING
MARIA SABINA
MARGARET MEAD
ANAÏS NIN
TIMOTHY LEARY
RAM DASS
ANN + ALEXANDER SHULGIN
PENNY SLINGER
MARJORIE CAMERON
ADRIAN PIPER
ELLEN WILLIS
ANNIE SPRINKLE
BONNIE MACLEAN
JULIANA HUXTABLE, etc.
Higher Love
The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality
Since the acid-dropping experiments of therapists and sexual revolutionaries in the 1950s and 60s, sex and psychedelics have consistently been drawn together in Anglo-American and European culture, hailed as augmenters of experience, therapeutic tools, and even erotic interlocutors.
From the counterculture call to “turn on and tune in,” to the quest of the modern “psychonaut” for self-realization, psychoactive substances have been understood to transform body and mind. Yet, the drugs we now refer to as psychedelics have much more varied and complex historical intersections with sexuality than the standard story of Western sexual liberation might lead us to believe.
This exhibition draws on hidden histories and marginalized stories, oftentimes those of women, to illustrate how our understanding of sexuality in the 21st century has been transformed by the “altered states” brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances. In the wake of a major resurgence of psychedelic research, which has informed the loosening of legal prohibitions on psychedelics and an uptake in use, the time has come to tell new stories about the psychedelic future of sex.
Deep relationship is the ultimate psychedelic experience
‘Higher Love - The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality'
MUSEUM OF SEX in NYC
March 22 - Sept 17, 2025
CURATORIAL TEAM
Ariel Plotek, Chief Curator
Amanda Assaf, Curatorial Research Manager
Alex Dymock, Senior Lecturer, University of London
Arasay Vazquez, Exhibitions & Curatorial Projects Manager
Zoë Dubus, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan
CONTRIBUTORS
Annie Sprinkle
Benjamin Breen, Associate Professor of History
Robert Janiger
Wendy Tucker, Board Chair, The Shulgin Foundation
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Eunice Yunjeong Lee, Exhibition Designer
John Monaco, Exhibition Designer