This is rather beautiful to think there's this much music that most of us have never heard.

Jascha Heifetz

 “There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.”

Tupac

 

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing.
Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that.
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”

 

The Motivator

The main figure which is the statue is designed after ‘Fu Lions’, a homonym based on the Chinese word ‘Fu’ meaning luck or prosperity. the one arm jutting out from it's side is the first step on the stairs towards personal fulfillment or self actualization, kind of based after Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This first step is also holding a rubics cube which I used to symbolize knowledge, and the mystery of the world around us. On one side of the stairs I put buildings with only the top floor having the lights on, symbolizing a desire to reach the top in your professional career. On the other side I used flowers to portray a need for balance between professionalism and things like love "red", Food "green", and knowledge "blue". I had a lot of fun on this painting, let me know what you think!  

also here's another new print

The Executive

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." P. J. O'Rourke

This painting is in dedication to BP and the wonderful job they're doing to make this world a safer and better place!

also check out prints at Deviantart.com as well, just search * rayjmaraca *