Once Upon a Lymie – Psychedelic Wall Art | Trippy Black & White Ink Drawing
Once Upon a Lymie is a surreal, black-and-white ink drawing that fuses fairytale surrealism with the harsh reality of living with chronic Lyme disease. In this piece, ornate patterns and fragmented forms echo the distortion of memory, time, and identity that chronic illness often brings.
Drawn entirely by hand with archival ink on paper, this trippy composition is part storytelling, part mapping. As the title suggests, it begins like a fairytale—but unravels into something far more complex. Delicate lines evolve into chaotic tangles, mirroring the neurological symptoms and emotional landscape of Lyme.
Part of the artist's ongoing series exploring invisible illness through psychedelic form, Once Upon a Lymie uses visual confusion to communicate what words often cannot. It invites viewers to get lost in the image—just as many chronic illness sufferers get lost in the system, in their own bodies, or in a story that never seems to resolve.
Medium: Black ink on paper
Size: 28 x 22 inches
Unframed
Original artwork | Signed by the artist | Certificate of authenticity included
Once Upon a Lymie is a surreal, black-and-white ink drawing that fuses fairytale surrealism with the harsh reality of living with chronic Lyme disease. In this piece, ornate patterns and fragmented forms echo the distortion of memory, time, and identity that chronic illness often brings.
Drawn entirely by hand with archival ink on paper, this trippy composition is part storytelling, part mapping. As the title suggests, it begins like a fairytale—but unravels into something far more complex. Delicate lines evolve into chaotic tangles, mirroring the neurological symptoms and emotional landscape of Lyme.
Part of the artist's ongoing series exploring invisible illness through psychedelic form, Once Upon a Lymie uses visual confusion to communicate what words often cannot. It invites viewers to get lost in the image—just as many chronic illness sufferers get lost in the system, in their own bodies, or in a story that never seems to resolve.
Medium: Black ink on paper
Size: 28 x 22 inches
Unframed
Original artwork | Signed by the artist | Certificate of authenticity included
Once Upon a Lymie is a surreal, black-and-white ink drawing that fuses fairytale surrealism with the harsh reality of living with chronic Lyme disease. In this piece, ornate patterns and fragmented forms echo the distortion of memory, time, and identity that chronic illness often brings.
Drawn entirely by hand with archival ink on paper, this trippy composition is part storytelling, part mapping. As the title suggests, it begins like a fairytale—but unravels into something far more complex. Delicate lines evolve into chaotic tangles, mirroring the neurological symptoms and emotional landscape of Lyme.
Part of the artist's ongoing series exploring invisible illness through psychedelic form, Once Upon a Lymie uses visual confusion to communicate what words often cannot. It invites viewers to get lost in the image—just as many chronic illness sufferers get lost in the system, in their own bodies, or in a story that never seems to resolve.
Medium: Black ink on paper
Size: 28 x 22 inches
Unframed
Original artwork | Signed by the artist | Certificate of authenticity included
