Raven McCormick

My name is Raven Liela McCormick. I was born at Cedar Sinai in Los Angeles, California. I like to explore the depths of creativity through the avant garde, fauvism, impressionism, and even gothic art. With the dark and psychedelic intertwined, it gives off a mystic aura of ghostly figures that seem to fly off the page. My late musician father is a huge influence on my art since he encouraged me to be an artist, which is one of the reasons I became a rocker as well. When I listen to music, I have an out-of-body creative experience where my lucid thoughts become reality. I’m very shy, but art has opened a door for me to communicate with people, no matter how shy I might be. The music that influences me is goth, metal, punk, soul, acid rock, and baroque, creating an energy that can evoke specters of the past that create a perfect contrast. of the mystic, hereafter, and philosophy, at a velocity that surpasses existence. Where I can act like this mortal coil is a paragon of coexistence.

Raven’s Poem

Drawing art is like making music each brush, stroke like a cloak 

Of Imagination becoming a nation 

Of yourself  that is an open invitation which is salvation 

To the person who seeks, the essence of a  mind 

Which can combine 

Many cultures ,expressions ,feelings 

 The dealings 

 Of life can’t always share 

Like a dare

Tempting your senses,turning your inhibitions 

Into ambitions 

Of freedom which will never leave your kingdom 

Of mind in a divine sense of  time defined.

Art is not something that can be put in a box, and it’s pure expression. I think we as artists should always remain free to express our ideas, especially with recent instances of art being destroyed, censored, or people using AI to try to replace the artist. It’s even more important to be an artist. Now that we are going through another age of art being underappreciated and the artist being crucified for showing different matters of life and how we fit in them, it has become acceptable to change other established artists' work because it has been dubbed "cultural appropriation," but art is the love and appreciation of different cultures. Some art is seen as too confrontational, but what is the artist if we can’t show things that might be unpalatable but in a palatable way for we should find comfort in that everyday. Art can visually and physically show you how sometimes things in this world can lead you astray. We need to protect many forms of art because I don’t want it to decay into something generic and soulless with no heart, so I think we should all never depart from creative endeavors so that they don’t become beyond the pale, keeping us all in a cycle where we can’t prevail.