An interview with Porous Walker

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March exhibition

I´ll have a three days exhibition on ocasion of a very thecnical conference. See details:
http://http://www.aerospace.ubi.pt/workshop2010/program.html

Snail with poetry

I finaly finished this painting. On the snail shell I wrote some lines from famous poems.

Detail:

Once I was watching an interview on tv, with an american or english scientist whose name I forgot, and at a certain point he said something extraordinary that I didn´t forget. He said that in the history of painting, there are many exemples of motives and styles that were influenced by science. One can easily think of three or four exemples: Op art and Optics, Surrealism and Psicology, some late Dali paintings influenced by atomic Phisics, etc. Now, he said he believed in the future we will see the oposit: science will be influenced by art! And he didn´t say thechnology, he said science!
Probabily someday a team of biothechnology experts will make snails with poems writen in their shells...

Ex-voto

Some years ago I painted four profane ex-votos, basicaly people congratulating themselves or thanking earthly powers for well suceded thefts and swindles.
This one is painted in the style of ex-votos, but it has a religious twist. The man says: "He gave his life so that you can live". The text says: "Said Mr. Crayencourt to the factory workers who were looking at the corpse of the young heroin adict. The factory that employed them was used to laundry money from the drug trafic."

Deep blue something

This is a painting I did back in 2000. Some details:

AVATAR

I finaly went to see Avatar, the excelent 3D movie, and here are some notes:
Yes, it will be considered a milestone in the movies history.
It confirmed that suspected function of many hollywood movies: unoficial, sincretic big masses to convey religious messages all over.
The beings on that planet exhibit plausible features that have been described by exobiology experts: luminescence exists on Earth, in fireflies and in deep sea fishes, moluscs and crustacians; blue skin is probable, as it exists in mandrils.
I saw some references to zen: in the first dialogues between the avatar and the aliens, when the avatar expressed his willingness to learn the alien culture, he was told that "you can´t pour liquid in a full cup"; the taming of the alien hexapode "horses" and the beautifull flying dinossaurs ("the one who will treaten to kill you will be the chosen one"), and the organic, mental and intimate union they establish, reminded me of the zen story "The ten bulls", and of the lines in the Leonard Cohen song, inpired by that story, "Ballad of the absent mare":
"Now, the clasp of this union, who fastens it tight
Who snaps it asunder the very next night?
Some say the rider, some say the mare
Or is that love like the smoke,
Beyond all repair?"
It reminded me also of the lyrics Caetano Veloso´s song "Um Índio" (An Indian)
The formula: Vietnam war movies in another planet + Gregory bateson´s essays "Steps to an Ecology of Mind", particularly, "Conscious goal or Nature".
I liked it very much.

A painting from 2008

Lately I´ve been visiting some friends and photographing my paintings on their walls. Here´s another one.

A painting from 2004

The sleep of reason produces fish.

A doodle I did now

A photo taken on the highway, driving at 60km/h, while the snow was falling.

Me in an italian blog

Today a photo of my painting "Swift" was published in the italian blog IMMAGINE & POESIA to illustrate a poem by the daughter of Dylan Thomas, Aerowy Thomas . Thank you very much, Lidia Chiarelli.
Link

Happy New Year

Work in progress