Samurai’s illustrations from our talented resident artist and dear
friend Luís. Enjoy!!
Create Portugal at LXFactory
A little
movie made at late night of our art show in the Open Day07 of LxFactory, last Friday.
Our special thank you for all the artists involved, visitors, LxFactory, friends
and family for making this evening so much fun!! We hope this teaser opens your appetite to come
and see the show, until the 4th of December.
Vegetarian wisdom
About ten
years ago something happened inside of me that made me stop eating meat. I
simply could not justify the killing of an animal and from the core of my being
I just knew that was wrong. Ever since then I've always have defended in my surroundings
my choice of not murdering an innocent animal, not for survival (as proven
by us vegetarians) but for the mere pleasure of eating it. It can be tiring to
go against the stream sometimes, but in the end I need to do what I believe is
right. This poster series is for me and my fellow vegetarians swimming
upstream, a reminder that we're among great men.
Anatomia do corpo humano
These are
some of the illustrations scanned from another ancient book found. On the
border between the weird and the amazing, the human and the alien… to remember
and maybe inspire.
7 days to go
Next Friday the 11.11.11 we are inaugurating a group exhibition
with Create Portugal, a network for artists living in and around Lisbon,
Ribatejo and Central Portugal. The art show is going to be in LX factory, Lisbon
on the second floor of the main building. We invite you all to join us for some
fine art, wine and food at 7pm.
Love
Francisca and Jens
A friend of mine
A friend of
mine, soul reader, told me some time ago that my place was in Nature, that was
going to help express and develop my art. “Go back to the trees” …was the
sentence that was constantly appearing in my thoughts.
In contrary
to what the system says, I like to believe that we should flow in life like a
river. Like a leaf that floats in the course of a river supported by the
detours of the little waves, pushed by the branches, and flowing with the sound
of the Universe to some determined destiny. –“Don’t make planes for Life so you
don’t spoil the plans Life as for you”. – The system says we have to fight for life.
Competition, instead of mutual help, is something that we are motivated to since
school time, and much more other nonsense that format us since the beginning of
our supposed education.
Like this I’ve
meet Jens and Francisca. They’ve invited me to visit their home in Quinta das
Praias, and they showed me a little house next to theirs. I’ve accepted right
away their invitation to change. Quinta das Praias is located in an oasis of
trees, surrounded by huge fields of agricultural plantations. A few hundred
meters ahead is the rive Tagus in its wild state, with big islands of branches and
logs in which the big birds land. At 2 km the city of Santarém, at 80 from Lisbon.
Jens and
Francisca are beautiful beings. Wise in spirit and Art, yoga lovers, the ideal companions
for who shares the same ideals and life philosophy. Twenty years of age difference
for me, but in the matters of the soul, we know time doesn’t exist. A year ago
they’ve left Barcelona and came to Santarém, to start the project of a
residency for artists. And I am the first resident artist. I hope this is the beginning
of something big.
by Luís Alçada
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