A.P.Polo - "Mescalito" - Flensburg (Germany) - Photograph / Mixed Media / Digital Art - The original long time exposed photograph was taken at night in Flensburg out of movement in combination with zoom and rotation of the camera and served, so to speak, as a supplier for the "light color palette" of this work. Lophophora williamsii or peyote is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. Peyote is native to Mexico and southwestern Texas. It is found primarily in the Chihuahuan Desert and in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosí among scrub. It flowers from March to May, and sometimes as late as September.
Known for its psychoactive properties when ingested, peyote is used worldwide, having a long history of ritualistic and medicinal use by indigenous North Americans. Peyote contains the hallucinogen mescaline.