The Elephant’s Garden

Felix Colgrave made this video called The Elephant’s Garden, and you’d need to be on absolutely everything just to survive watching it. Bath salts and MDMA and glitter mixed with hashish and desomorphine and absinthe, throw in some cocaine and fizzy powder and whatever else exists, and only then might you be approaching the right headspace to process what’s actually on screen.

I watched it more or less sober and all that stuck with me are fragments. Dancing flowers. Blood cells fleeing. Trees that seemed pleased about it. Bushes getting stomped flat. A god swallowing birds. An elephant grinning like it knew something I didn’t. Everything else just disappeared. The whole thing seems to erase itself from memory the second it ends. I can’t tell if that’s by design or if the video just breaks something in you that keeps the details from sticking.