The Visual Art & Writing of Ricardo Acevedo

Via Jami Shofner

I counted my years
and found that I have less time to live
from here on than I have lived up to now.
I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets:
he ate the first with pleasure,
but when he realized that there were few left,
he began to enjoy them intensely.

I no longer have time for endless meetings
where statutes,
rules,
procedures and internal regulations are discussed,
knowing that nothing will be achieved.

I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven't grown up.
My time is too short:
I want the essence,
my soul is in a hurry.

I don't have many sweets in the package anymore.
I want to live next to human people,
very human,
who know how to laugh at their mistakes
and who are not inflated by their triumphs
and who take on their responsibilities.

Thus human dignity is defended and we move towards truth and honesty
It is the essential that makes life worth living.

I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life
to grow with gentle touches of the soul.

Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.

I don't intend to waste any of the leftover sweets.
I am sure they will be delicious,
much more than what I have eaten so far.

My goal is to reach the end satisfied
and at peace with my loved ones
and my conscience.

We have two lives
and the second begins when you realize you only have one. "

~Mario de Andrade

https://youtu.be/KBekMK-0XzI?si=WO-uU4eLkfIcC29O

Fat Man (Steven Wilson Remix) Provided to YouTube by RhinoFat Man (Steven Wilson Remix) · Jethro TullStand Up℗ 2016 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group CompanyUnknown: Andy Johns...

ON JULY 27TH - Love Wheel Records!! Lost Cat Magnet and Josh Ronsen brekekekexkoaxkoax INSTORE!! Promises to be strange and perversely conversational AND I'll have new CDs and books for sale!

I don’t believe in magic, I know it intimately. Hell, we’ve gotten drunk together, done drugs stayed up all night. It’s dated my brothers and sisters. Broke their hearts, abandoned them at the altar. While others it made saints mad on the drug of creation.

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Michael Crawford and I have some cool things brewing at Antone's for September. More info soon.

from my recent trip to San Bernardino. What's left of one of the three palms, of the Three Palms Court (apartments) where I grew up till 12.

"The Sun was out, but in a different place than where I remember it being"

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Ricardo Acevedo visual art • avant music • lit

A stream merges into a river, a river a sea... Things I see. Things I make

Other beauties with Toxic Water... Jess to be exact

Great opening!! Well attended! Amanda Fay is the bomb! All the work with a great dynamic flow. Thanks Bolm Arts!! #512

and so to bed...

No One to Tell Me No, by Lost Cat Magnet - Charles Russell - Tiago da Silva from the album My Exotic Self

It’s hard not to feel something of Americas past and future on a day like today. I have a heavy heart knowing all the injustices committed on African Americans, but I am full of love and respect for all of the things they have brought to the fabric of our country. Truly the phoenix rises. I celebrate you all.

A couple of the pieces I'll have on display at Bolm Arts for their Midnight Mirage: A Nightlife Narrative, opening tomorrow night!!
#512

https://youtu.be/XKdzefLROB8?si=vIEVVq3RpwDbFfA3

ölmondnacht (OilMoonNight) {2022} A revenge fantasy. A corrupted & glitched daydream. A futile endeavor to cope with visions of terror... Sunflower Fields Forever!Made with footage and sounds...

“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are often ardent and cruel in our journey.”
–Leonard Cohen

few of my faves, so far in 2024

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.”

–Aldous Huxley, “Ape and Essence”

On the 20th at Bolm Studios!!

always worth a repost...

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

- Albert Camus

via Carmen Gray

It is possible to have the fire for love without being a fool - Malo

woah... exquisite stuff. A peak behind the curtain.

DAVID SYLVIAN *Brilliant Trees* the Berlin Sessions David Sylvian has posted an incredible 40-minute film of the Brilliant Trees sessions on the samadhisound vimeo account.David writes:Brilliant Trees sessions...

Phase 2 coming along nicely

Starting today on the build out of my new home photo/art studio. Cluttered now, but note that natural light!