Acrylic
Canvas
18” x 36”
Acrylic on Canvas
The Mystic Garden Collection
surreal: Surreal, Fantasy, Visionary
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This painting is a luminous, surreal bouquet that floats in deep space—part dreamscape, part celestial offering. At its core, sunflowers bend and bow with expressive weariness, A vivid cyan monstera leaf unfurls beside them, adding a lush, tropical boldness that contrasts the dark void surrounding the arrangement.
Various other flowers—including passionflowers, crocuses, daisies, and spiraling, candy-like plumeria blossoms— and purple hibiscus flowers spiral upward and outward, forming a blooming constellation. A bee hovers in midair, as if summoned by the silent call of nectar and mystery. At the bottom, delicate ornaments—clocks, orbs, and swirling mechanisms—dangle like artifacts of time and memory, tethering the bouquet to unseen dimensions.
The background, a deep black accented by slashing bands of neon green, magenta, and golden light evoke a cosmic dimension, suggesting that this is not a garden of Earth, but one born from imagination, memory, and stardust.
Overall, the piece feels like a sacred arrangement of life, decay, wonder, and time—simultaneously grounded in botanical beauty and lifted by metaphysical dream logic.
Tags: Space and Time, Floral Fantasy, Secret Garden,
Secret Garden, the second piece in this evolving collection (the first being Flower Island), was inspired by an earlier Hawaiian scene I painted—lush with flowers and huge monstera leaves. In this work, the image of a dripping sunflower paired with a massive monstera sparked something vivid in my imagination. From there, it blossomed into a surreal bouquet, surrounded by cosmic blooms and dreamlike light. My growing fascination with space and time began to weave itself into my art, making this piece a turning point—where nature and the universe first began to truly intertwine.
This piece was born from the belief that even in darkness, beauty can grow in secret. I imagined a garden untethered from the physical world—a place where memories bloom beside cosmic energy, where flowers bend with time and hidden stories drift like pollen in the air. Secret Garden is a tribute to the wild, unseen spaces within us all.
