Surreal underwater scene featuring a shell-like creature with a bowling ball, large-eyed fish, and abstract aquatic plants in a dark, dreamlike composition.

Bottom (Oral Contemplation with Bowling Ball)

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LIMITED EDITION of 50
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In Bottom (Oral Contemplation with Bowling Ball) - Andrius Miezis plunges the viewer into a strange and humorous underwater cosmos where biology, fantasy, and surreal logic intertwine. Softly glowing organisms drift through the darkness - bulbous plants, a snail-eyed creature, and an unsettling black sphere punctuated with three holes. Each form seems both alive and artificial, as though belonging to a dream world built from fragments of the deep sea and the subconscious.

The work pulses with quiet absurdity. The bowling ball, alien yet familiar, becomes a totem of human intrusion - a symbol of misplaced purpose amid organic strangeness. The creatures surrounding it appear curious, even contemplative, mirroring the viewer’s own puzzled fascination. Miezis’s use of muted colors and velvety gradients transforms the bizarre into the serene, allowing absurdity to breathe in an atmosphere of near-reverence.

Bottom (Oral Contemplation with Bowling Ball) reveals Miezis’s talent for weaving humor and philosophy into visual poetry. It is a meditation on curiosity and coexistence, on how the foreign becomes intimate through quiet observation. Beneath its whimsical surface, the painting reflects the artist’s deeper question - what happens when human thought sinks to the depths, and the surreal becomes the natural language of contemplation?

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Limited Edition & AuthenticityEach size is its own limited edition, from 50 prints in the smallest size to 10 in the largest. Every print is numbered and comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity. Each artist receives a commission from every sale.

Museum-Grade MaterialsPrinted with archival pigment inks on Breathing Color Lyve, an OBA-free archival canvas made in the USA, then hand-coated with a matte finish that protects against UV light, moisture and scratches.

True to the OriginalCaptured by professional fine art photographers and color-matched to the original painting, not to a screen. Colors may look slightly different on your device.

Ready to HangGallery-wrapped on 1.5″ kiln-dried wood bars with mirrored edges, so nothing is cut from the front. Hanging hardware included.

Custom Sizes, Framing & Free MockupsCustom dimensions plus floating and classic frames available. Send us a photo of your wall for a free mockup. Interior designers, ask about trade pricing.

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Meet the artist

Andrius Miezis

Andrius Miezis is a creative powerhouse from Vilnius, Lithuania, blending bold colors, quirky compositions, and a healthy dose of irony into art that’s as thought-provoking as it is fun. Born in 1970 and armed with a background in architecture, Miezis has spent over three decades creating works that playfully reimagine folklore, mythology, and everyday life. His paintings are a delightful mix of strong, intense colors, flat perspectives, and whimsical geometric forms—like a visual game where the rules keep changing.

Miezis isn’t just about painting; he dabbles in digital music and photo-mixes, proving there’s no limit to his creative playground. His art has traveled the world, popping up in galleries and private collections from Lithuania to Germany, the UK, the US, and beyond. Whether it’s a mischievous mash-up of mythical creatures or a cheeky take on modern life, his work invites viewers to dive into a colorful universe where humor and depth collide.

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