Poison Ivy - THE LIVING ALTAR / Bazal. 11,7x 8,3 in.

"nature doesn’t ask for mercy"

This illustration presents Poison Ivy as an absolute vegetal deity—sensual, dangerous, and fully merged with the nature she commands. Ángel Bazal portrays her in a perfect balance between organic beauty and predatory threat, surrounded by living vines and carnivorous plants that seem to obey her every gesture. Her gaze is calm yet merciless: she does not seduce, she judges. The ballpoint pen work unfolds through dense cross-hatching, building volume, texture, and rhythm with obsessive precision. Leaves, flowers, and stems do not function merely as clothing, but as direct extensions of Ivy’s body, reinforcing the idea of total symbiosis between woman and nature. The carnivorous plants, opened like hungry mouths, act as living sentinels and symbols of ecological revenge. The frontal, powerful, almost icon-like composition turns Poison Ivy into a living altar. There is no fragility in her vegetal nudity—only absolute control. This is not a classic villain, but the embodiment of a natural force that no longer asks for permission. Here, nature does not beg—it takes back what is hers.

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