Delicious Silence, is
one of those paintings that suggests a variety (apparently
simple), of ways to affirm the artist's daily religious
rituals, moments of pleasurable relaxed meditation,
through which he becomes stronger in confidence and
in so doing listening in his mind to the diminishing
volume of loud and racing city life noise. Also one
of those spiritual-visualization canvases that in spite
of their simplicity, actually take weeks and even months
before the artist finally decides That's It and signs
them. Also one of those alternative non-stereotyped
day after day mirrors, in which the artist basically
performs patiently his most enjoyable and inspiring
momentes of inner-self contact silence and high level
of perception and insight. Unquestionably to a certain
extent the driving force which keeps him essentially
magnificent, absolutely positive thinking and thereby
immune to the daily challenging picture of professional
commitments and quite often feverish burning social
life flame. Sunset! Delicious silence! As we walk up
the hill the sky was already turning from blue to orange.
The anticipation was building with every step. As we
got closer to the top of the hill the bright orange
sun came into view. It was glorious! Antonio Pessoa
was so excited he couldn't stop running to get to the
top. As we got to the top of the hill and sat on a bench,
the sun was slowly sinking behind a distant mountain
range ."Goodbye sun!", the artist said as
it sank beyond the horizon "I'll see you tomorrow!"
It was a most relaxing time. The artist sitting next
to me on the bench, said" Delicious Silence! I
love it... and I will paint it!" Effective therapy.
Said and done. More than you can imagine the artist's
level of well-being and happiness is much higher in
his Home Studio creative peaceful atmosphere than in
the downtown at times emotionally disturbed racing madness.
His philosophy and and rock solid concept of emotional
brilliance comes out of his systematic research upon
the keys to the art of living a fulfilling, rewarding
and happy life. Delicious Silence is another of the
multiple artistic results of this expanded awareness,
optional lifestyle and faithful daily rituals. These
patterns of existential preferences and self-therapy,
such as peace of mind, serenity and continuous pursuit
of higher levels of happiness, creates his art, his
life and at last makes his ultimate personal dreams
come true. Slowly and rhythmically, artist Antonio Pessoa
gets down to work, finding a delicious quiet and peace
overcome him little by little. When he has finally reached
this stage, then he begins to focus his full attention
on the canvas before him. Lovely! That's in this delicious
silence where he meets once again this delicious presence
of supreme awareness, and that's when and where imagination
flows and art expression perception grows. Settled down
in his Studio 1,where mainly his important art performance
takes place and his most relevant artworks come alive,
Pessoa here and then takes again some downtime to quiet
his being, and thereby allows his mind to become sharply
aware of his silent environment from the input of all
his senses. Delicious Silence... Art Action Time! Now
that he has reached that high level of awareness inwardly
and outwardly, he sinks even deeper into the magical
universe of supreme creativeness art making, now with
a far greater confidence, stability and attentiveness
to the artwork at hand. Worthwhile waves gravitate to
the artist. In, around, underneath and beside him. Ascension
to a new state of consciousness! Antonio Pessoa rides
the serenity energy waves while painting, while I sometimes
watch him painting, asking him questions, listening
to his vibrational answers as I put them down in brief
words on my notepad. Studio 1,in its pleasurable contemplating
silence, is a higher dimension on earth, so I feel and
I know, a place of reflection, art and creative positive
frequencies. Leaving the old, outdated methods to discover
new, beautiful ways of contemporary art expression,
new color combinations, fascinating mood swings, multidimensional
interconnected forms, shifts and levels, gradual chromatic
transitions, the quiet Studio 1 space effects making
sure every bit of his dancing body is loose, mind without
tension, connecting with the art planet, feeling the
sources of inspiration within the silence, deliciously
bright, as the striking brush strokes take it away onto
the canvas until it's glowing with brilliant visual
metaphysics. The veil is lifting as the show goes on
in Studio 1's heartbeat. The soulful side of life, the
art side of life is beginning to take center stage within
the artist's creative spirit. Pessoa is now in the cycle
of evolution where imagination and art expression is
demanding to be acknowledge and allowed to be at the
helm of Heavenly life. Antonio Pessoa's spiritual side
requires the essential nature of Delicious Silence,
where life's interpretation knows no lack, only abundance
of all there is. This is the part of supreme inspiration
that is desiring to shine and the artist at work is
only the mediator and the conduit. So it's in this third-dimensional
reality that Delicious Silence has grown week after
week, month after month, gradually reflecting more and
more the artist's relation with pure abstract poetry,
with that level of relaxing awareness, where everything
starts to make perfect sense, and the call to art action
becomes a religious ritual, totally focused on the Here
and Now, where pure art performance takes place aiming
at create the alternate perception of reality. As Antonio
Pessoa becomes more and more seriously involved in the
pursuit of self knowledge through silence, this spirit
of Universal Awareness is thereby leading him to a delicious
feeling of a special sort, his Secret for all the highly
creative sessions in the particular field of his latest
abstract neo- surrealistic contemporary fine art series.
Visual literature and poetry through the soft colors
combinations, reaching the magical very best of its
quality characteristics, subtleties and innovative aesthetic
atoms. In Delicious Silence, the artist makes therefore
evident that there is a purposeful mystery contained
in its melting body, in its serene passion and mood
that is changing with every moment the viewer contemplates
this relaxing work of art. Continuously moving and changing,
it can hardly gives us a consistent identity, and the
more we surf away across tha canvas space, its planetary
motions inspiring infinite interpretative changes, suddenly
give us a delicious cosmos understanding, feelings dancing
in a continuous state of flux, whispers of truth silently
walking on the doorsteps of our hearts. This Spirit-source-Art-Universe
that is emmited from the quiet strength of this canvas,
supports this inner-self discovery influence the artist
displays in his latest work and life. Accessing the
Wisdom within this charming artwork, we inevitably embrace
its latent sense of spirituality and in so doing we
inevitably penetrate much deeper into the nature and
the world of Perception, again, Antonio Pessoa conducting
us to understand what lies beyond the visual field of
our objective imagination. The artist's method to develop
this latent, additional senses through silent meditation
is skillfully well summarized in the soothing atmosphere
of Delicious Silence, softly whispering us the fascinating
phrase, Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder!
