Turning Myth Into Visual Art: From Tarot Cats to Fine Art Prints

Turning Myth Into Visual Art: From Tarot Cats to Fine Art Prints

King of Swords Tarot Card from the Deck of the New Orleans Tarot Cats

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The world was written in pictures long before it learned the alphabet. Symbols scratched into clay, whispers painted on cave walls, patterns of stars glimpsed through smoke. You can still feel those old stories under your skin if you’re quiet enough.

I live in that quiet, working as a digital collage artist, conjuring myth inspired art prints that remember the shape of forgotten gods, or at least the shape of their cats. In my studio, ghosts of antique engravings, my own photographs, and a great many felines overlap until a door appears, and I step through. Whether it becomes a tarot card or a fine art print, the process starts with a question: What does this myth look like, here, tonight, with a cat at its center?

From Tarot Cats to Prints: A Mythic Journey

I began with the Deck of the New Orleans Tarot Cats, because archetypes demand to be dealt like cards… and cats have always been the true keepers of archetypes. My deck blends Crescent City folklore with feline mystery.

Designing that deck was a slow conjuring of symbols: each posture, each hue a coded spell. That training shaped how I see everything. Now, when I build a digital collage, I approach it like a card, an invitation. My tarot deck artist roots keep the images honest; every print must carry a whisper, a question, a dare. The result: myth inspired art prints that feel like they might still be moving when you look away.

The Art of Digital Collage

Digital collage is the magic trick where fragments decide they were always whole. My raw materials are photographs I’ve taken: cracked plaster from a decaying New Orleans facade, moss from a hidden cemetery, a veil of rain across a gas lamp, mixed with antique engravings and impossible creatures. On my screen, these elements stack, fade, and overlap until they’re no longer themselves but something older and stranger.

For one piece, a zebra striped cat guards the gates of a Southern Gothic cemetery, its tail curling into a question mark. In another, a sphynx cat spreads its wings outside a New Orleans pyramid, glowing with red light. It’s part surreal digital collage, part dark fairy tale, and a little bit of something I can’t name but know when I see it.

Fine Art Photographic Prints: Bringing Digital Collage to Life

Although the work begins as pixels, it isn’t finished until it has a body. That’s why I create fine art photographic prints instead of posters. Posters flatten the spell. My prints, crafted on heavyweight archival photographic paper, hold the depth and the gleam, the velvet blacks and the fevered highlights.

When you see one in person, it feels less like ink on paper and more like a secret looking back. The print doesn’t just reproduce the collage; it stabilizes it, like a charm pinned to your coat. Myth inspired art prints deserve to be artifacts, not afterthoughts.

Choosing a Print That Speaks to You

Choosing a print is a little like drawing a card from a deck you didn’t know you owned. Which image watches you back? Which archetype sidles closer? Some collectors tell me the piece that calls to them matches their favorite card from the New Orleans Tarot Cats. Others follow color: the eerie greens, the violet shadows, the hidden gold, like breadcrumbs in a dark wood.

My suggestion: let the story choose you. Scan the gallery, see which print blinks first, and trust that pull. That’s how myths (and cats) find their way into our homes and our bones.

Closing Reflection & Invitation

Every print begins as a whisper from a myth and ends as an object you can hold. In a time of endless scrolling, making something physical feels like rebellion. It’s a way of anchoring stories in the world again, letting them gather dust and fingerprints, letting them be real.

If you’re curious, you can explore my full collection of myth inspired art prints here: https://www.lovedayfunck.com/tarot-card-cats

You’ll find tarot cats, Crescent City dreamscapes, and Southern Gothic visions, each one an echo from a story that hasn’t ended yet.

Thank you for letting me open this door. Step through carefully. Some of the cats bite.