The Opium Smoking White Elephant - Flower Spirit of the Night Paths

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 Flowers and Mushrooms series depicts a young woman in a magnificent gown, reminiscent of both ritual clothing and the organic structures of a living forest. Her serene gaze and narrow, slightly inclined head position lend her a still, trance-like presence. The AI ​​has created a network of flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental forms around her, resembling a spiritual ecosystem.

In Thai culture, flowers and mushrooms are not merely natural forms, but carriers of spiritual power – beings that appear in animistic traditions as helpers, healers, or guardians. This figure seems to be such a guardian: connected to nature, imbued with invisible energy, embedded in a realm where plants and spirits share the same breath.

The opium-smoking white elephant recognizes in the AI ​​hallucinations an intuitive condensation of this spiritual reality. The imagery also possesses a raw directness reminiscent of Western Art Brut – an untamed, visionary form of representation in which nature, ritual, and fantasy merge into a vibrant myth.