No amount of real charm in life can compare with what a gifted person is able to accumulate in the depths of his fantasy.

One of biggest mistakes photographer can make is hoping that his photograph will look like the real world. If we limit our imaginations to real world, we will forever try to copy its beauty, but we can never do anything more.       

Galen Rowell.

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2015).

Visionary

We are who we pretend to be. Choose your mask carefully.       

Through authentic artistic images created by my imagination in this fine art photography series, I touch upon theme of human essence. In Fairy-tale and from a part of surrealistic manner, this story narrates about different facets of nature of a person, vice and virtue.

Person avoids, endures or loves loneliness in accordance with the value of his "I".       
Arthur Schopenhauer.

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2018).  

Admiration and delight that we feel from contemplation of nature is a memory of the time when we were animals, trees, flowers, earth. More precisely: this is a consciousness of unity with everything, hidden from us by time.        

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2015). 

Awareness of Unity

I prefer mythology to history, because history begins with truth and comes to deceit, while mythology begins with deceit and goes to truth.
Bernardo Bertolucci.

In ancient times, there was a special kind of people, they were called druids - oak people. Druids have nothing more sacred than the oak tree and the mistletoe that grows on it. No Druidic potion is made without the leaves of these plants. Druids believe that everything came from oak. It was on its branches that life originated, since this tree was chosen by the Gods. 

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2022) 



Druid

Life is a wheel of fortune, and now I have a chance to spin it.

Vol. I. (Inferno), Canto VII.

.."Master," I said to him, "now tell me also
⁠What is this Fortune which thou speakest of,
⁠That has the world's goods so within its clutches?"
And he to me: "O creatures imbecile, ⁠
⁠What ignorance is this which doth beset you?
⁠Now will I have thee learn my judgment of her.
He whose omniscience everything transcends
⁠The heavens created, and gave who should guide them,
⁠That every part to every part may shine, ⁠
Distributing the light in equal measure;
⁠He in like manner to the mundane splendors
⁠Ordained a general ministress and guide,
That she might change at times the empty treasures
⁠From race to race, from one blood to another, ⁠
⁠Beyond resistance of all human wisdom.
Therefore one people triumphs, and another
⁠Languishes, in pursuance of her judgment,
⁠Which hidden is, as in the grass a serpent.
Your knowledge has no counterstand against her; ⁠
⁠She makes provision, judges, and pursues
⁠Her governance, as theirs the other gods.
Her permutations have not any truce;
⁠Necessity makes her precipitate,
⁠So often cometh who his turn obtains. ⁠
And this is she who is so crucified
⁠Even by those who ought to give her praise,
⁠Giving her blame amiss, and bad repute.
But she is blissful, and she hears it not;
⁠Among the other primal creatures gladsome ⁠
⁠She turns her sphere, and blissful she rejoices..

Dante Alighieri "The Divine Comedy" (1867).
(Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2023).

Fortune Guardian

If you remove from human activities everything related to making a profit, only art will remain.

It is mistake to say that an artist is “looking for” his theme. Theme ripens in him like a fruit, begins to demand its expression. It's like childbirth. Poet has nothing to be proud of - he is not master of situation, he is servant. Creativity for him is the only possible form of existence, and each of his works is adequate to an act that he cannot arbitrarily cancel.
Andrei Tarkovsky.

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2020). 

Observer

Person should not wish for himself either greatness, or happiness, or heroism, or sweet fruits - he should not wish himself anything at all, nothing but a pure, sensitive mind, a brave heart, as well as fidelity and wisdom of patience, so that thanks to them to endure and happiness, and suffering, and noise, and silence. Hermann Hesse. 
(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2022)

Lancelot

Everyone must stand in front of picture as in front of king, waiting to see if she will say something to him and what she will say, and both with king and with picture he does not dare to speak first, otherwise he will only hear himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer.  
(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2022)


Stone King

Her eyes are fixed on floor, but I am sure they do not see it, her eyes are turned as if inward, into depths of her heart: she looks at her memories, and not at what is now around her.
Charlotte Bronte.

If we wanted and dared to create an architecture that suits our soul, then our image would be a labyrinth.

Labyrinth is symbol of brain. Minotaur is animal part of mind, and Tessei is human part. Animal part is stronger, but human part wins in the end. This is meaning of history of evolution.
Victor Pelevin.

(Fine Art Photography. Created in 2015). 

Maze of Thoughts

SuperRare

Goal of our life is evolution of individual consciousness, consisting in development of truly human qualities that distinguish us from animals. But this goal was forgotten in pursuit of all kinds of sensual pleasures.
Most of human troubles are explained by the fact that, living in midst of nature, person does not comply with its laws.
Only one who has cognized himself can gradually free himself from animal in himself.
Dario Salas Sommer - "Science of Love".
Art Photography created in 2014.

Innervision (Eternity).

I used to think that these words "Memento Mori" that is, remember death - it's scary. But this is wonderful. This is fun, its great. It means to be able to enjoy life, be able to forget bad and remember good. (Andrey Mironov).       
That you see cannot be drawn in an artificial way, so it's unique and valuable. It's possible only in authentic digital art photography that i do. Here all the elements are homemade, the main brush - fantasy of imagination on backyard of my magic home garden:) Enjoy time.

Memento Mori...Meta Man.

Foundation

Neo–Bohemia (Dandy's Сompetition).

“With us,” said Alice, with difficulty catching her breath, “when you run as fast as you can for a long time, you will certainly find yourself in another place.
- What a slow country! Said the Queen. - Well, here, you know, you have to run as fast just to stay in the same place! If you want to get to another place, then you need to run at least twice as fast! "

Especially often this saying of the Queen describes the essence of capitalist competition, where any stop immediately throws you back. The term "Race (Run) of the Black Queen" is used in evolutionary theory to denote the need for constant change and adaptation of species to support their existence.

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

Collection: "My Wonderland" (Gift Edition).

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