The Opium Smoking White Elephant - Mushroom Flower Trail in the Twilight

This work from the Sacred Flowers and Mushrooms series evokes the image of a mystical forest path at dusk—a space where plants, spores, and blossoms appear as living, breathing beings. A female figure, reserved and venerable, seems to emerge from this web of fungi and plants. Her body or garment is entwined with patterns that trace mushroom caps, petals, and leaf veins—an artistic in-between of figure and flora.

The atmosphere is both dreamy and watchful: the background can be interpreted as a symbolic guardian landscape where nature and spiritual beings are inseparable—entirely in keeping with the animistic worldviews prevalent in parts of Thai culture. The mushrooms and flowers are not merely decorative, but metaphorical entities: symbols of growth, transience, change, and spiritual presence.

AI processing elevates this vision to a psychedelic mythology: colors, textures, and forms transcend the naturalistic and appear almost sacred – an invitation to cross the boundary between the visible and invisible worlds. The depicted figure becomes a mediator: between humanity and nature, everyday life and ritual, visible existence and the spiritual realm.

In this hybrid visual language, the creator recognizes a connection to Western Art Brut: a raw, intuitive and untamed form of expression that reinterprets traditional symbolism and creates a visual language in which culture, folklore and futuristic aesthetics merge.