Elliott Patrick

The wish for harsh winds to be at your back, beautiful moon light to guide your path. May your days be filled with understanding and love, as lasting and enduring as the stars up above. A family that loves you and close friends. A kind place to come to when the days at its end. Blessings as numerous as there grains of sand, with greetings from others with an open hand. Foot steps. When walking my feet touch the ground the pulse of each step slightly making a sound. Thinking of all the others walking. Do any of them think the same thing? When sitting meditating counting my breath, a small vibration from a billion foot steps, make my candle and incense smoke dance. That can only be seen in a quick glance, or maybe it’s that notorious butterfly flapping it’s wings some where in France? 12/1 EXPOSED. My mind is as open as a saloon door. With steps leading up from years of wear a grove has been worn. My heart is a furnace a fire rages in, held by cast iron that generates heat, ... and keeps warm no matter enemy or friend. My imagination flows from the ink of my pen, explaining and exposing to the world who I am. OF THIS. I get amazed when I realize we are always in change. A fluid motion more like a torrential flood, then timid movement slightly rearranged. Galaxies colliding, stars being born and others vanish. Universe’s inside atoms, the directness of a sunbeam all are constantly changing. The stopping movement inside our head becoming a point of stillness, threading a needle with a chain. A feather in a tornado becoming calm with the awareness of bliss. A smile floats by, as we’re given to all of this. 10/03/11 The Sea. Sitting between heaven and hell , Balancing the direction of karmas, multi faced crown. Then in the center of darkness comes light, With no difference between them as death and life. A drop of pure water into an anguished sea, dissolving all to stillness in its complexity. I have discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color - something which exists before all forms and colors appear. This is a very important point. No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea... In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure. But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing... then at that moment you will have perfect composure.

Perception. Made up in our imagination, we’re so different from the rest, some below us, some envied, still others we feel are blessed. We project our perception in every circumstance we meet, with this separation that makes us think we’re so complete. Just one atom or the micro space between, Nothing would be same, not even in a dream. The self is very important, with the drive to achieve, but without clear reflection on truth it’s incomplete. July 2, 2009, 4:45 PM With happiness. With happiness there’s sadness that’s mixes in, For somewhere there are other’s that are suffering. When we’re sad and things look bad, time and space brings us back. Most of life is give and take, Trying to be surefooted in an earthquake. Sitting in a meditated pose, letting what is, come and go. Focusing on selflessness, and falling throw the sky, compassion is the way of knowing why. Don Juan I want to be Don Juan, eat chocolate cake, fly to the stars, swim in a gold lake. I want to date Venus, drive a new car, play piano like Beethoven and Hendrix on guitar. I want to sleep like an angel, have sex like Satan, be an Olympic star and fail at nothing. I want to let go of all of my extremes and wake up from this unbelievable cool dream. 09/21/11 May we. May we all become Lamas, Arhart’s or Buddha’s except the ones who don’t want to be. May we all stop suffering and come to this understanding. May we all have compassion for the one’s who are in pain and the wisdom to realize that Karma with cause and conditions are the drivers of that train. May we all know the silence of a peaceful mind. Learn to control our emotions and a better life we’ll find.

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Fernando Lameirinhas Gente Saudade do Futuro van het nieuwe album: "E Terno" Chris James Walk with your heart Angels take themselves lightly Paul Vens Humberto Sotto Mayor Nico Buisman & The traffic Junction Slow wave sleep Rollercoast

Nasceu na Beira, em Moçambique, em 26 de Novembro de 1962. Em 1989, frequentou o curso de desenho artístico da S.N.B.A. e, depois, o curso de pintura do Ar.Co.. Em 1999 frequentou o curso de pintura mural - Fresco - e fez um estágio de pintura com J.P.Vieville em Bourneville - França. Em 2000 frequentou o curso “The Vocabulary of Painting” com Joan Semmel na Academia Internacional de Arte em Salzburg - Austria. Trabalha no seu atelier Arejo, na Serra de São Julião, Carvoeira – Torres Vedras.

EXPOSIÇÕES REALIZADAS
1996
- Exposição individual na Galeria de Arte de Alvito - Alentejo
- Exposição colectiva de Pintura e Poesia do I.A.D.E. - Lisboa

1997
- Exposições individuais na inauguração da Galeria Cavalo de Pau - Lisboa

1999
- Exposição individual no Hotel Altis Park - Lisboa
- Exposição colectiva de artistas Luso-Africanos - Leiria
- Exposição individual no Centro Municipal de Cultura - Castelo de Vide
- Exposição individual na Galeria Municipal - Marvão
- Exposição individual na inauguração do espaço ACRE - Ponte de Sor
- Exposição individual na Galeria de Albarraque

2000
- Exposição individual na Galeria Municipal Lagar de Azeite - Oeiras
- Exposição colectiva na Academia Internacional de Arte -Salzburg - Salzburg - Austria
- Exposição individual na Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém

2001
- Exposição colectiva de Pintura e Fotografia na Galeria Municipal do Palácio Póvoas - Portalegre
- Exposição individual na Galeria do Sacramento - Lisboa

2002
- Exposição individual no Hotel Sheratton Pine Cliffs - Algarve

2003
- Exposição individual na Galerie Sol - Berlim - Alemanha
- Exposição individual no Núcleo Central do TagusPark – Oeiras

2005
- Exposições regulares na galeria- atelier “Arejo”- Torres Vedras

2006
- Exposição colectiva no Hospital Fernando Fonseca - Amadora/Sintra

2007
- Exposição individual na Galeria Hibiscus - Lisboa
- Exposição individual no Hospital Fernando Fonseca - Amadora/Sintra

2008
- Exposição colectiva "Jeu de Mains" no Château des Terrasses - Cap D'Ail - França, com realização de action painting.