The Opium Smoking White Elephant - Temple of the Flower Spirits

Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 30 × 30 cm with a 1 cm white border
Year: 2025 edition
Edition: 1 + 1 AP

This work from the Sacred Mushrooms and Flowers series leads the viewer into a world where spirituality, nature, and vision merge. A female figure stands or sits at the center of a lush, ornamental scene in which mushrooms, flowers, and forms of light merge into a vibrant tapestry. The atmosphere is like a tropical dream—permeated by golden ornaments, cosmic reflections, and a quiet, trance-like energy.

The figure appears as an embodiment of those nature beings who possess a real presence in Thai folk religion: spirits, plant guardians, protective forces of the forests. Her gaze is serene, introspective, an expression of an inner connection to another plane of existence. The AI ​​enhances this vision into a digital mandala of color, light, and symbolism—a hallucinatory transformation of animism into the language of the present.

For the opium-smoking white elephant, this reveals a profound affinity between ancient spiritual practice and the perception of artificial intelligence: both generate realities beyond the visible. In the intuitive, raw, and simultaneously visionary formal language, the artist recognizes a parallel to Western Art Brut – as an expression of an untamed, inner truth.