This research explores how Daoist philosophy can support alternative approaches to environmental art beyond crisis-driven narratives. Through practice-based research in painting and illustration, the project asks how mythopoetic visual storytelling can sustain ecological attention through quiet, reflective engagement rather than shock or urgency. Drawing on Daoist ideas of relationality, non-interference, and cyclical change, the research situates humans as participants within dynamic ecological processes rather than as autonomous agents acting upon nature. The project engages The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing) as a source of relational imagination, approaching its mythic figures and landscapes as frameworks for thinking ecological interdependence rather than as symbolic illustrations. Painting and illustration function as research methods through which material choices, visual structure, and narrative openness shape ethical and ecological understanding over time. By working with organic pigments and upcycled materials, the project emphasizes attentiveness, coexistence, and responsibility within a shared and continually changing ecological world.