NIGHTMARES... #3

... at the end of the day, and everybody should be aware of it, there are not so many geniuses around and not so many great artists around.

Philippe Segalot, art consultant, New York

the brilliant robot painter by Leonel Moura @ Arte Lisboa 08 contemporary art fair

photo by miss rabbit

Junky cover #4

2002, Penguin Books edition

POSTCARDS FROM... #2

Berlin 2008 - Director's cut

photos by José Elói

DOBERMAN 2004

pen drawing on paper

29 x 21 cm

Ditosos os fazedores de sistemas pessimistas! Não só se amparam de ter feito qualquer coisa, como também se alegram do explicado, e se incluem na dor universal.

Fernando Pessoa in Livro do Desassossego, (composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa).

Gajas boas ( hot chicks )...

Blondie aka Debbie Harry

HEART OF GLASS

Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out had a heart of glass

Seemed like the real thing, only to find

Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Once I had a love and it was divine

Soon found out I was losing my mind

It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind

Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

In between

What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine

Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind

If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good

You teasing like you do

(...)

Once I had a love and it was divine

Soon found out I was losing my mind

It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind

Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Lost inside

Adorable illusion and I cannot hide

I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside

We coulda made it cruising, yeah

Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light

(...)

from my personal vinyl collection and memories.

2 see more go to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE

Sinthomas review:

photos by Manuel Simões e Cláudia...

NIGHTMARES... #2

In 2000, in the painting Waiting for God, I used for the first time a pin with a logo like a motive for my painting. This logo come from Aphex Twin aka Richard David James, an electronic musician and dj.

I decided to put this motive in my painting after watching Come to Daddy, the orgiastic mind-fuck video directed by Chris Cunningham in 1997 to the music of Aphex Twin.

To see it go to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0

Aphex Twin's logo was created, not by Dan Parkes as some sources assert, but by designer Paul "Terratag" Nicholson in 1992. Nicholson: "Dan Parkes was the illustrator of the artwork that appeared on the "Ventolin" release. A s far as I know, that is the only artwork that Dan created for Richard. A little piece of trivia about the logo: at the time I met Richard, I had being doing artwork for a San Francisco-based skatewear label called Anarachic Adjustment. Their 'thing' at the time had been the whole "alien" vibe (remember, we are talking 1991). So, I had been creating loads of designs based around the letter 'A' which got knocked back. Richard, having seen the work in progress, liked where I was going with the amorphic shape and from these I developed what is now the Aphex 'A.' The logo was finished early 1992, in time to appear on the "Xylem Tube" sleeve." (1)

(1) information taken from pictograms.blogspot.com

Eight years later I revisited the lyrics of Come to Daddy in this recent nightmare drawing

first cover 4 junky

1953 - Ace Double edition, credited to William Lee aka William S. Burroughs.

Evil needs to be pondered just as much as good, for good and evil are ultimately nothing but ideal extensions and abstractions of doing, and both belong to the chiaroscuro of life.

C. G. Jung in Psychology & Alchemy

TIGER 2004

pen drawing on paper

21 x 14.8 cm

blackats memorabilia

NIGHTMARES... #1

No outro dia fui ao meu clube de video com a intenção de alugar o dvd do filme Shortbus (2006) escrito e realizado por John Cameron Mitchell. Queria revê-lo, sofria de ennui gripal era de tarde e não me apetecia fazer nada.
-Estava fora! - disse a menina. E provavelmente não voltaria, já estava fora há muito tempo.
Voltei para casa a pensar nas palavras de Susannah Breslin no seu blog; http://www.reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com/

I've seen all kinds of porn - mainstream porn, altporn, feminist porn, fetish porn, midget porn. In my opinion, porn is porn. Porn is a movie in which people are fucking, period. You can call it what you want, and spin it how you will, but at the end of the day you're watching people fuck for show, for money, for a living. Porn is a pretty rough trade, and no amount of spin can doctor that fact.

Restou-me, apenas, chegar a casa fazer um charuto e passar o resto da tarde a ouvir a Nazi Girlfriend do Iggy Pop:

I want to fuck her on the floor
Among my books of ancient lore
So I will make a full report
I got a Nazi Girlfriend

...

POSTCARDS FROM... #1

Berlin 2008 - photos by José Elói

In Berlin, by the wall

you were five foot ten inches tall

It was very nice

candlelight and Dubonnet on ice

We were in a small cafe

you could hear the guitars play

It was very nice

it was paradise

You're right and I'm wrong

hey babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone

One sweet day

lyrics by Lou Reed in Berlin

dj nightmare's cut

bling bling...

DELUXE 2001

acrylic and spraypaint on canvas

100 x 70 cm

presented in Funny Games exhibition, Porto 2002

CASUAL ART

Route A8 to Lisbon autoshots

21.10.2008

YES WE CAN...

SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL 2000

acrylic on canvas

50 x 300 cm