Undine - Fine Art Print
A woman's face emerges from liquid cosmos—eyes closed or perhaps squeezed shut, hand pressed to head in gesture universal to migraine, overwhelm, or the moment consciousness fractures. Her profile dissolves into swirling marble patterns of ice blue, steel gray, golden yellow, and deep charcoal. Behind and around her, acrylic pour creates veining like cracked porcelain or neural pathways firing in distress. A turquoise eye-like sphere floats nearby—omniscient witness or dissociated self watching from outside. Scattered throughout the composition are collaged fragments suggesting the debris of a mind coming apart: architectural elements, organic forms, crystalline structures. The woman's skin tone shifts from realistic flesh to metallic copper to pure abstraction, suggesting the way severe mental distress makes even your own body feel alien. Pearl white highlights catch like tears or the cold sweat of panic attacks.A fine art print of an original mixed-media artwork by Megan Ashman, produced on the selected material and sized to preserve the artwork’s composition as closely as possible.
Details
This listing is for a fine art print of the original artwork Undine.
Original artwork size: 16x12.
Original artwork materials/techniques: mediums/materials: phosphorescent paints, found objects, paper, wax, photo collage, oxidative inks, distress paint and inks, acrylic pouring, digitally altered images, acrylic paint, watercolor, spray paint, walnut ink, staining mediums, tissue paper, mica powders, glitter, heavy gel medium, gesso, pebeo prism and fantasy paints, ceramic paint, stained glass paint, alcohol inks, iridescent inks, distress crayons, charcoal, pastels, oil pastels, string, beads, jewelry, gems, chains, buttons, foils, newspaper, vinyl, plastic, walnut inks, india ink, colorshift paints and more!
This is a reproduction, not the original mixed-media painting.
Print Materials
Glossy Photo Paper: A bright, smooth, glossy print option designed as an affordable way to collect the artwork. This finish gives the image crisp detail, strong color, and a polished photographic surface.
Premium Smooth Matte Fine Art Paper: A smooth fine art paper option with a clean matte surface for crisp detail and rich color.
Textured Watercolor Fine Art Paper: A fine art paper option with a soft textured surface that adds depth and a traditional art-paper feel.
Luminous Metallic Fine Art Paper: A luminous paper option with a subtle pearlescent finish for bold color and glowing depth.
Satin Poster Paper: A satin-finish poster option for larger display sizes with strong color and a polished surface.
Canvas Print: A canvas print option for select standard sizes, produced for a gallery-style display.
Print Options & Sizing
Print sizes are selected according to the original artwork shape. Sizes are chosen to avoid stretching and preserve the composition as closely as possible.
Fine art paper sizes are kept to standard small and medium formats. Satin poster sizes are used for larger and panoramic formats. Canvas prints are only offered where the shape and size are appropriate.
Made to Order, Signature & Certificate
Each print is made to order, carefully packaged, and signed when possible. A Certificate of Authenticity is included with each print.
Original Artwork
The original artwork is currently available. View the original artwork listing for full details, pricing, and availability.
Artwork Notes
Hidden Images & Elements: The hand-to-head gesture represents pain (physical or psychological), the attempt to hold yourself together, or the dissociative experience of your head feeling separate from your body.. The eye-sphere symbolizes hypervigilance, the watching self, or the feeling of being observed even in private suffering.. The marble pour patterns evoke brain scan imagery, the literal neural chaos of mental illness, or the beautiful-terrible aesthetics of breakdown.. Collaged fragments represent fractured thoughts, intrusive memories, or the way reality becomes collage-like when consciousness destabilizes.
Interpretation: This visceral piece visualizes acute mental distress—panic attack, dissociative episode, bipolar mixed state, or the moment when coping mechanisms fail and the mind simply comes undone.. The horizontal format suggests falling or lying down, the body's surrender when the mind can no longer function.. The beauty of the pour technique creates troubling tension—this dissolution is gorgeous even as it represents suffering.. The piece honors how mental illness feels: simultaneously too much sensation and complete numbness, hyperreal and utterly dissociated.
Poetry: She held her head together while her thoughts became water, color, anything but coherent.
