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A concept sketch of the fairly minor "Brahma" character from my series for Zelazny's Lord of Light. I decided to give her extra faces that are floating around her that are holographic projections, which is actually based on the traditional depictions of this particular Hindu deity. They would be constantly singing the praises of Brahma, but alternatively, they also voice her thoughts or act as weapons, projecting energy beams. All this is not in the book, but my own extrapolation. Her deptiction in the book is actually male, though "his" original gender is female, and she chose to be reincarnated as a male for her current form. This character is depicted as having really confused gender issues, mainly due to a resentment against her male counterparts. I just chose to make the character female because the character list is overtly male as it is. Along with Vishnu and Shiva, Brahma makes up the Trimurti, or the ruling group of gods.
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This image of Brahma is visually and conceptually brilliant. (The one thing that threw me off is that in India Brahma is shown with only four heads.) In one sense this is an expose of the patriarchal imaging of the Creator. In another sense it's an image of the goddess Brahmi, Brahma's shakti, his creative energy. However we viewers approach it, it's powerful.