Swallows dip and dive over a sun-streaked river as a perfectly groomed poodle trots along a pink-pebbled path after a dragonfly. We are looking through the eyes of the painting’s subject, a young man lost in an hallucinogenic reverie fed by the magic mushrooms seen growing in the foreground and referenced in the work’s title. While conventional perspective is retained, almost all indications of time and place are removed and replaced by psychedelic colour and candy cobblestones to create an ‘Alice in Wonderland’feeling, in which man and nature, real and unreal, cohabit.