awwwwwwwwwww! shedoesthecity made me featured artist of the week.
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raymi is our very own superstar, a supernova actually just like Frankie Goes To Hollywood sang about.
All her art is a gift to the world.
That first piece with the cat in it is one of my favorite.
As for comparisons to other famous artists, isn’t the point simply that when we see something that evokes a reaction we’ve known before, that we’ll refer to ideas and concepts that communicate to our listeners what we feel?
I think of Toller Cranston and Gauguin for example. Toller because he’s one of a kind, and Gauguin because of her colours and subject matter. And reminded strongly of African art too – primitive and often joyously sexual.
Yet none of that matters because each piece is essentially a piece of the incredible spirit that is raymi.
Yes, she’s just another girl in the city, but each day she writes and paints and dances and sings and stands up for herself in a world that’s determined to crush anyone who has the arrogance and audacity to think they’re special.
And she wins every time.
A reminder to all of us to dare to be as we wish to be.
this is jazz she will be there tonite also.
