The Opium Smoking White Elephant - Spur Trail of the Holy Night

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 evokes the vision of a nocturnal grove where flora, myth, and spirits merge. A female figure emerges—almost floating—from a lush tangle of mushrooms, leaves, and blossoms. Her posture is serene, almost reverential, as if she pauses in a state between dream and ritual. The figure's garment appears to be interwoven with organic patterns: veins, spores, leaf structures—as if fungi and plants had imbued the clothing with life and woven the figure into the forest.

The background appears deep, hidden, and mysterious—a landscape of shadows, soft light, and suggestive outlines that leave room for imagination and inner experience. In the visual language, the figure appears as a guardian or messenger of an ancient nature cult, a world where plants, fungi, and spirits form a vibrant community. For the artist, this vision is not only aesthetic but also spiritual: the AI-generated forms open a new level of perception where traditional Thai animistic concepts, folklore, and modern visual aesthetics converge.

With this visual world, the creator bridges the gap between past and future, between visible reality and hidden magic — and invites the viewer to enter an intermediate world where nature, ritual and myth are inseparable.