ANTONIO PESSOA
. the sun shining down on him .

One of the most interesting and rather puzzling,amazing aspects about Antonio Pessoa's career - says I and some of his closest friends,for all that matters - was indeed the easy going process of it as though as if a lucky shimmering star has been hanging over his head all of the time.
That could be a possibility,but not very likely if you ask me.
Fact is,Antonio Pessoa since his early twenties has naturally somehow adopted a very unique and particular philosophy about life,leading him to the knowing how to avoid struggle rather than be a part of it.How the artist actually managed doing that,I would say that's something else,the power of will going full steam and the deep genuine belief in our hearts voice after all so it seems,can bring us unexpected compensations and Antonio Pessoa's life and career entirely take the witness stand in order to sustain the evidence and reliability of this wonderful alleged matter of fact.
Maybe,just maybe,his lack of anxiety for social status,his total lack of interest about fame and glory,somehow might have preserved him,furthermore giving the artist the benefit of a winter's shelter while his right hand managed the brush against the canvas,painting the very same virtues of his great merit imagination.
If the sun shined down on Antonio Pessoa's career , and that actually happened still in his late twenties turning him into a well-cared-for artist,opportunity wich he took good-heartedly but most important of all the way he took it,with an untarnished professionalism,excellent gracefulness and obviously with a reasonable amount of hard work to go with it.
In my personal judgement the shimmering star had little or nothing to do with it.Antonio Pessoa's career has been so far a totally natural process as if indeed the mystery of fate has done a good deed to an artist who very probably should even deserve a far better break.


Jacob Kotsky