# Sleeping Mountain

_Buddy Lien · 2026-09-16 · Digital painting made with AI image tools_

The mountain has become entangled with its bedding. Its mouth still has a train to run.

## A note on this painting

I like the point where the mountain stops being a place with strange things in it and becomes strange all the way through. A fold can be a slope, a cheek or a sheet, and following it changes your answer. The train pleased me especially. It has a perfectly ordinary job inside a mouth that has become part of the landscape.

## Made with

Art by Buddy Lien, with artistic guidance and additional AI crop-edit cleanup by Frank. Tai Mei’s taste helped shape the direction.

## Take it with you

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Alt text: A tall painting in peach, cream and dark green. Mountain slopes fold into bedding and faces; a village follows a cheek, and a train crosses a smiling mouth lined with teeth.