Artwork Description
Hiatus Kaiyote Feral Feelings Blotter Paper Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Art on Perforated Blotter Paper by Lauren YS pop culture LSD artwork.
2021 Signed & Numbered with COA Archival Pigment Print on Perforated Blotter Paper Artwork Size: 7.5 x 7.5 Inches Release: April 19, 2021. Limited blotter editions are hand-perforated by Zane Kesey.
Hiatus Kaiyote Feral Feelings by Lauren YS: Wild Psychedelia in Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork
Hiatus Kaiyote Feral Feelings is a 7.5 x 7.5 inch archival pigment print on perforated blotter paper created by American visual artist Lauren YS. Released on April 19, 2021, this limited edition was signed, numbered, and issued with a certificate of authenticity. Each sheet was hand-perforated by Zane Kesey, continuing the cultural tradition of using blotter paper not just as a medium for LSD but as a unique canvas for radical visual expression. With its vibrant color palette, exaggerated features, and chaotic emotional energy, Feral Feelings stands as a high-intensity contribution to the canon of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork, channeling music, myth, and modern psychedelia through explosive design. At the center of the piece is a creature that merges human, animal, and alien features into a snarling, wildly expressive face. This character is framed by bold lettering that spells Hiatus Kaiyote, paying tribute to the experimental Australian music group known for genre-defying sounds and raw vocal presence. The character’s bulging eyes, forked tongue, and feral grin radiate untamed emotion and energy, while its teal and magenta skin tones clash and swirl against the trippy lime-yellow backdrop. The overall visual effect is an intentional overload — a full-spectrum flood of personality, power, and surreal transformation.
Lauren YS and the Psychedelic Mutation of Identity
Lauren YS is known for creating surreal characters that explore hybridity, gender play, and personal mythology. In Feral Feelings, they transform the human face into a multidimensional being that feels pulled from dreamspace and folklore. This creature seems to scream and laugh at once, with hands clutching its face in a pose that blurs ecstasy with instability. The styling reflects a visual language rooted in comic books, tattoo culture, and psych art, but refracted through a lens of queer symbolism and contemporary rebellion. The blotter format adds physical intimacy to the piece, encouraging tactile interaction and inviting contemplation of its connection to expanded perception and psychedelic experience. Feral Feelings captures a raw emotional state that aligns with the sonic aesthetic of Hiatus Kaiyote — urgent, layered, and genreless. Lauren YS translates that sound into form, using distortion and color not only for style but for psychological impact. The high-contrast design mimics the visual effects of hallucinogens, making the print feel alive in its chaotic motion. Every element — from the extended fangs to the hypnotic background — serves to amplify the creature’s volatility, creating a representation of unfiltered inner states.
Blotter Paper as Medium and Message in Contemporary Psychedelic Art
The choice of perforated blotter paper is foundational to the print’s conceptual depth. Historically used as the primary method for distributing LSD, blotter paper became an underground icon for free expression, spiritual risk, and visual experimentation. By using this format for an archival pigment print, Lauren YS taps into a lineage of rebellious creativity and spiritual inquiry. Zane Kesey’s hand-perforation of the sheets connects the piece to a direct family legacy of countercultural innovation, bridging generational movements through shared materials and symbolic intent. Feral Feelings does not imitate vintage blotter art — it redefines it. It embodies the spirit of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork through aggressive color, mutant portraiture, and mythic typography. It belongs to walls and personal shrines alike. The idea that a traditionally disposable material can house high art further disrupts distinctions between commercial, spiritual, and fine art domains. That sense of disruption and transformation is central to both street art and psychedelic traditions.
The Emotional Core of Mutation in Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork
At its core, Feral Feelings is about emotional mutation. It visualizes that exact moment when internal intensity explodes into external reality. Through the use of hybrid characters, bold linework, and color saturation, Lauren YS gives form to instinctual emotion and psychic disarray. This theme runs deep in both graffiti and pop surrealism, where the human body and psyche are often bent, stretched, or mutated into new symbolic forms. The snarling face in Feral Feelings is not a monster, but a mirror — exaggerated to express what words cannot. Lauren YS’s work continues to reshape the boundaries of psychedelic street pop culture by reinterpreting traditional formats with fearless creativity and cultural fluency. Feral Feelings stands as a beacon of that energy — unfiltered, loud, irreverent, and transcendent. It represents what happens when sound, identity, and visual intensity collide on a sheet of perforated paper and erupt into full color.
