The Opium Smoking White Elephant - Guardian of the Sacred Grove

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

In this work from the Sacred Flowers and Mushrooms series, a female guardian emerges from a lush, spiritually vibrant jungle. Her folded arms convey protection, focus, and a quiet determination—a posture reminiscent of the gestures used to depict Thai forest spirits or guardian beings in animism and folklore.

The AI ​​transforms nature into a living, almost breathing structure: mushrooms, blossoms, and plants appear as carriers of a secret, magical energy that permeates the entire space. The figure is dressed in a traditional-looking, richly ornamented sarong, whose pattern subtly evokes Thai textile art. Its intense gaze combines human presence with a supernatural vigilance deeply rooted in Thai culture.

The opium-smoking white elephant sees in these hallucinatory AI images an unexpected proximity to the spiritual reality of his origins – and at the same time a surprising kinship with the unadulterated, intuitive visual language of Western Art Brut.