Beyond Sunset, Oceans of Calm Series by Maja Kerin
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Medium: Fine Art Photograph
Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm
Edition production year: 2024
Edition of 5
Price: $2600.00 USD
Status: available
Beyond Sunset is an invitation into the quiet afterglow — that moment when the world softens and the sea becomes a mirror of peace. Bands of deep ocean blue drift across the surface, while pale light lingers like a final blessing on the horizon. Created as part of the Oceans of Calm series, this work is about emotional spaciousness: the sensation of exhaling, releasing the day, and returning to inner stillness. The gentle motion blur and horizontal rhythm evoke water in its most soothing form — not frozen in time, but flowing, calming, and quietly expansive. Printed on museum-standard aluminium Dibond, Beyond Sunset has a clean, architectural elegance that suits contemporary and high-end interiors. The material enhances the depth of the blues and the luminous softness of the light, creating a refined presence designed to elevate luxury spaces with serenity, balance, and calm atmosphere.
Why collect this work?
Horizontal blurring turns the seascape into layered bands, while an off-centre patch of reflected light keeps the image suspended between observed water and abstraction.
- Kerin describes her practice as “painting photography” and links it to stillness. Here, that intention is supported by the reduction of sea and sky to light, colour and lateral motion.
- The photograph shows a dark blue band crossing the upper third, with pale reflections dispersed below and toward the left. Their asymmetry interrupts the otherwise steady horizontal rhythm.
- Catalogued as a fine art photograph from 2024, the work uses motion blur to withhold crisp detail. The catalogue description reports an aluminium Dibond print, a rigid presentation that may sharpen the contrast between physical flatness and pictured fluidity.
- At 120 by 80 centimetres, the image supports sustained comparison between photographic recognition and near-monochrome abstraction. It is particularly relevant in collections examining how camera movement can reshape landscape without fully abandoning place.
About the Artist
Maja Kerin
Maja Kerin is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: photography. Based in Monte Carlo , Monaco.
Nationality: Slovenian
Photography gave me a reason to pause. In that pause, I began to reconnect with myself. Now, through my work, I hope to create that same sense of calm and connection for others.
