Kerry Krogstad

Kerry Krogstad is a Los Angeles–based visual artist, collage maker, and creator of The Meta Muse, a mixed-media universe exploring myth, archetype, and the unseen currents shaping human experience. Drawing from a lifelong fascination with tarot, astrology, and dream symbolism, her work blends vintage glamour, cosmic surrealism, and ritual imagery into immersive, otherworldly scenes.

Her signature style merges hand-cut collage, digital compositing, and painterly atmospherics to create images that function like portals—thresholds between the physical world and the symbolic one. Themes of feminine archetype, mirrors, celestial motifs, and emotional landscapes appear throughout her work, reflecting her belief that art is a tool for intuition, self-inquiry, and transformation.

Influenced by years spent around film environments, visual storytelling, and her long-standing spiritual practice, Krogstad approaches each piece as part dream, part myth, part memory. Her work has resonated globally through The Meta Muse tarot deck, oracle offerings, and her distinctive narrative visual language. She aims to illuminate the beauty found in introspection—the glow of the psyche at the moment it meets itself.


Artist Statement

This series was created in response to the solstice’s invitation into stillness, introspection, and the quiet return of light. Each piece explores a threshold, the space between endings and beginnings, through imagery of reflection, ritual, and transformation.

Winter slows everything down, revealing what glows in the dark. In these works, mirrors become portals, hands become ritual tools, and landscapes shift into emotional terrains. Water, sky, and cosmic weather echo the inner world: its turbulence, its clearing, and the moment when a subtle but unmistakable light returns.

The final piece, featuring red-gloved hands holding a mirror over rippling water, became the anchor. The mirror reflects a calm sunrise not present in the sky, suggesting that solstice illumination often emerges from within. The storm continues around it, yet the light persists—quiet, steady, sovereign.

Together, these works act as visual spells: invitations to pause, witness oneself, and honor the liminal space between what has been and what is becoming. They ask the viewer to consider the beauty that emerges when darkness is met with reverence rather than fear.


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