Years ago a fifteen years
old boy named Antonio Pessoa, discovered Raja Yoga.
Patanjali Maharishi's tutorials and guidance leads him
through a new perception of omnipresent consciousness
the artist accepted as a basic principle which was bound
to give him valuable assistance and even protection
throughout the years yet to come. That was the very
beginning of Pessoa's philosophical excursion into the
realms of the Spirit. In moments of doubt and distress,
Antonio Pessoa could always count on the inner dimension
of Kaivalya, the divine state of emancipation and absolute
independence, providing him with the privilege and power
of individual soul, knowledge of perception, wisdom
and liberation. This wandering spiritual energy led
him to that superconsciousness level where absoluteness
is experienced in life and in art. These revelations
dealing with ultimate truth and self-realization later
on turned out to be the body of Antonio Pessoa's lifestyle
and the heart and soul of his amazing artistic performance
up to now. Antonio Pessoa in the year 2001 paints this
lovely and charming watercolor titled Stairway to Heaven,
obviously inspired by Led Zeppelin's worldwide known
song writen by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, one of the
artist's favorite tunes and poems in his early teenage
years. Another clear sign of Pessoa's spiritual beliefs,
despite his only apparent attachment to the material
world. Antonio Pessoa's spiritual infused nature is
systematically stated and manifested not only in the
gigantic whole of his oeuvre but culturally installed
in his inner serene intensity. Throughout the years
the artist embraced the perfect life of Supreme Truth,
sheltered within the Universal perception of God,a divine
image and concept without frontiers, races and cultures,
and thereby is this involving fullfilling experience,
Pessoa's mystical perceptual belief, which has been
after all the Heart and Soul of his unique parallelism
of artistic motions punctually reflecting his mind's
infinite idea of a universal, even cosmic conclusion
of the many marvels of inner peace, happiness and creativity.
This spiritual process has indeed successfully managed
to involve the artist in a new generation of new contemporary
fine art ideas and concepts and in so doing, in his
lifestyle as well. The artist's striking creativity
has been many times attributed to divine intervention,
much more than merely associated with genius, technical
application let alone chance. There seems to be no signs
of ambiguity in his multi-dimensional oeuvre, but rather
a undeniable fascinating mysterious phenomenon of visible
artistic inspiration ever associated with a wonderful
spiritual model towards existence and at last generating
a positive and impressive affect relation between his
inner self and art expression. Despite the dramatic
stereotypes, visual impact and fierceness of the Black
and White album as in many paintings of the bombastic,
inflated and sometimes even pretentious Romantic Period,
Antonio Pessoa keeps on going back to his depth seeking
exercise, where he's once again pleasurably delighted
to return to the dimension of feelings control, dancing
away with the sound of the silence and the body of the
Great Revelation. Stairway to Heaven is just another
reflection of an artist charged with the power and the
presence of God, that universal immense ocean of wonderful
wandering awareness that surrounds us, but too often
we just can't see it nor feel it. But then Art communication
by the hands of a devotional wizard can bring us or
gives back the gift of contemplation and understanding,
that supreme degree of emotion and intuitional sensations
we all so desperately need in order to finally see,
feel and witness the bright side of reality, the true
side of existence. The Stairway to Heaven!
