GALERIA AZUR MADRID
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< Raymond Blum
United States

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BIOGRAPHY

My earliest memories of art are of drawing science fiction themed illustrations at my kitchen table: spaceships, celestial bodies and such. The need to give life to the fantastic, to make it real and attainable, held fast through my teenaged years; from superhero characters to sword and sorcery scenes of elves and demigods.

For a few years I studied and considered a career in the comic book industry, but the “industry” part of that term felt like a barrier. I did not want to crank out prescribed images at a rapid pace, driven to attain a rate; rather than a vision.

While bouncing between themes and media, I was revisited by my first passion: the desire to bring the fantastic into the common, objective world for all to share.

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Featured in Goddess Arts Magazine issue #16

Certificate in Illustration, Parsons school of design

STATEMENT

My current theme, which I have been exploring for over a year now with no signs of exhausting, is of giving form to female divinities that once embodied the world around us. We accept some truths as understood, labelling them “laws of physics” but they once had names, faces and personae. I would rather call “the conservation laws of physics” by their ancient name, Meneswā “She who measures.”

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