Opium

For the 25th anniversary of the radio program Opium, I created a series of 25 drawings in one day, all themed around “Opium.”

Why doesn’t anyone else see this?



Weeks-long daydream



Everything seemed to breathe



“Wim, are you okay?”



Everything is watching



Collective hallucination



Lost horizon



“And then I became addicted to placebos.



There they go



That night I painted my house



Head full of sleep



“I’ll take you home”



Passive smoking



Had been lying there for twelve days



Happiness for a penny



Here we drill a third eye



We wanted to live in the cloud



Stupor



His pupils had become so small they were overwhelmed by the blue



Deep in the garden, poppies grew



This is not right (a second later it was gone)



I smell a spider in the room



Everything warm, everything liquid



I try to get home



After we discovered that smoking the hairs on boys’ crowns has the same effect as opium.