Mystical Fine Art
by
Edward Maesen
Mount Shasta, CA, USA.
This section of my website features digital artistic renditions of some of my photographs, together with entirely digital creations, organized in themed catalogs.
Gallery-quality prints of some of these are available. More information can be found on my separate photography art website.
While browsing the art catalogs, you can mark images as "favorite". Information about those images will appear here so you can copy-and-paste that in an email. You may also email me the title or web page URL of each art work that you are interested in.
An image can be toggled as a "favorite" by clicking icon , it will expand with a green border if selected. Alternatively, you can press the [f] key on your keyboard.
The selected favorites are only stored in your browser's memory: you can clear your selections simply by closing your browser tab.
By clicking on any of the images within an art catalog you enter a page where you can easily navigate through all images within that catalog. On this page, the onscreen arrows and can be used to cycle through images within that catalog. Alternatively, you can navigate using your keyboard by pressing the [left arrow] or [right arrow] keys respectively.
The breadcrumb trail at the top of the page allows to quickly jump up one or two levels, or go back to the home page.
By clicking on any of the images within an art catalog you enter a page where you can easily navigate through all images within that catalog. If your browser supports it, this page makes an option for a full screen slide show available, indicated by icon .
The slide show can be paused, and the direction can be changed with the buttons . Alternatively, you can press the [spacebar] on your keyboard to pause or resume the slideshow. Pressing the [up arrow] key switches direction to backwards, while pressing the [down arrow] key switches direction to forwards.
The speed of the slide show (i.e. how many seconds each image is displayed) can be changed with the buttons (in order of slowest to fastest). Alternatively, you can press the [shift]+[<] keys on your keyboard to go slower, or [shift]+[>] to go faster.
After I had taken photos for many years, I felt an urge to create something more "artistic" with them, something beyond a mere capture of a moment in time. I started to merge photos from nature with photos from people, where the human faces or figures are sometimes only apparent on close inspection, as a secondary layer in the image. I created 24 of those images and called the series "Spirit of Nature".
Additionally, I created a series of 27 digital designs based on crop circle geometry and called that series "Communiqué Galactique". I also made special print versions from a selection of my photographs.
The first print from the Spirit of Nature series is the only one that has an animal face in the background layer. A dog's face can be seen between the tops of the trees. It's a picture of my beloved little Bichon Frisee Louis who died at this mountain (Mt Shasta) and who is the reason that I moved up here: I had a profound firsthand spiritual experience that there is more than just this physical life. In this art series my aim is to show the merging of dimensions, the lifting of the veil.