{"product_id":"blue-lotus-koi","title":"Blue Lotus Koi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLUE LOTUS KOI\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAcrylic on Birch Wood Panel | 48\" × 60\" | 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome paintings are windows. This one is a portal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Lotus Koi\u003c\/em\u003e is a large-scale immersive work painted on birch wood panel — the solid ground allowing layers of acrylic to build translucency and depth that canvas cannot replicate, the paint pooling and clearing like water itself, the surface alive with a luminosity that shifts as you move around it. A zen garden at the moment of perfect stillness, interrupted only by the movement of a single koi — orange, vivid, impossibly present — threading through a field of blue and violet lotus blooms that open across the surface with the unhurried certainty of something that has been blooming for two thousand years and intends to continue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lotus rises from the mud. The koi moves through the deep. Both are ancient symbols of spiritual awakening — of transformation, of beauty emerging from darkness, of the soul in motion through the world. Together on this panel they create something that operates simultaneously as a painting, as a meditation object and as a window into a world that is quieter, deeper and considerably more alive than the one outside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe birch wood panel ground gives the colours a depth and translucency that canvas simply cannot achieve — the greens genuinely deep, the blues and violets luminous, the orange of the koi almost shocking in its warmth against all that cool water colour. Layers of acrylic build beneath each other like the layers of a real pond — surface, middle depth, the darkness below — creating a painting you can look into rather than simply at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 48×60 \u003cem\u003eBlue Lotus Koi\u003c\/em\u003e is monumental in scale and intimate in feeling — the paradox of all great immersive painting. Stand in front of it and the room falls away. The water is right there. The koi is moving. The lotus is opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStep in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e📦 Shipping \u0026amp; Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e48\" × 60\"\u003c\/strong\u003e original acrylic on birch wood panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1⅞\" deep cradled panel — gallery ready, no framing required\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned and dated 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease \u003cstrong\u003econtact us before purchasing\u003c\/strong\u003e to discuss shipping options for this large scale work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCertificate of authenticity included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne original. No reproductions. Step in.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decorum Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42972729704542,"sku":null,"price":9500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4929\/6990\/files\/bluelotus-custom_3.jpg?v=1783255223","url":"https:\/\/decorumatelier.com\/products\/blue-lotus-koi","provider":"Decorum Atelier","version":"1.0","type":"link"}