Although both Matthew Ritchie and Bruce Conner work in a variety of media, drawing is important to each artist’s practice. As each of these two psychedelic drawings demonstrates, the process of mark-making can open up new worlds and evoke altered states of mind. Ritchie’s explosive drawing relates to a projection shown on stage during the cyclical narrative of "Long Count", a performance piece inspired by the creation myth of the Mayans upon which Ritchie collaborated with the twin-brother musicians Aaron and Bryce Dessner over several years. Conner’s "BOOK PAGES" is one of a series of drawings that the artist intended to publish as a book. Although the project was never realized, the pages were to be filled with dense and abstract patterns intended, in the words of the artist, “for repeated and quiescent absorption.”