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CRITICAL GORILLA — THE FILTER WAS THE TRIP

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  Creative rationale: Today’s standout psychedelic story is a striking mescaline finding: researchers report that mescaline, LSD and psilocybin can produce substantially different brain-wide patterns yet converge on unusual connectivity involving the cerebellum , raising the possibility that altered sensory filtering—not simply their shared serotonin receptor—is central to the psychedelic experience. The work was conducted in awake rats, so the hypothesis remains provocative rather than settled.

Critical Gorilla #004 — The Cartographer of Invisible Borders

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Critical Gorilla #003 — The Cartographer of Invisible Borders Creative Rationale Critical Gorilla has stopped studying books and started studying the boundaries people can't see. In this surreal landscape, he redraws invisible borders that separate ideas rather than nations: certainty and curiosity, fear and wonder, noise and signal. The piece is energetic rather than cynical, suggesting that many of humanity's strongest divisions exist only because we continue to imagine them. This rotates away from the library concept into a vast outdoor psychedelic landscape while preserving the series' visual DNA of dense symbolism, layered discovery, and playful intellectual exploration.