Skull Trippin

Skull Trippin
From the Lost Drawings Series by Peter Bogdanov
Ink, graphite, and colored pencil on heavyweight sketch paper
“Skull Trippin” isn’t just a drawing—it’s a transmission from the other side of the veil. Rendered in a flurry of ink, graphite, and colored pencil, the piece pulses with psychedelic energy, like something glimpsed mid-vision quest or caught between dream and waking.
The skull, warped and grinning, seems to breathe and shimmer with life—not dead, but dancing. Its eye sockets stretch beyond anatomy, as if peering into some swirling kaleidoscope of cosmic absurdity. The lines twist and jitter, colors buzz like static, and negative space becomes just as alive as the form itself. It's not a memento mori—it’s a memento party.
The story goes like this: Peter Bogdanov was deep into his experimental phase, still in art school but already pushing past the syllabus. A weekend of late nights, weird music, and stranger company left his mind somewhere between Salvador Dalí and Saturday morning cartoons. The result? A sketchbook page that started as a skull study and mutated into something... else.
This is the human condition—seen through a funhouse mirror. Life, death, perception, identity… all boiling in one chaotic pot. The kind of drawing that asks more questions than it answers—and smirks while doing it.
The original was lost in the catastrophic hurricanes of 2024, along with hundreds of pieces from Bogdanov’s early archive. But like the best kind of trip, it left a trace—a high-res digital scan, preserved and now reissued as a limited archival print.
To collect “Skull Trippin” is to own a souvenir from a mind on the edge of revelation. It’s not just art—it’s a glimpse into the weird, wild place where creativity meets chaos, and grins back at you.