Pela última vez: 25 de fevereiro / For the last time: 25th of february

Pela última vez: 25 de fevereiro / For the last time: 25th of february, originally uploaded by MichelAngelo▲.

Este desenho mostrando a planta baixa de uma construção antiga foi feito durante os dias em que revivi a sequência da morte de Vittoria Colonna, nos primeiros meses de 1986.
Pela minha experiência de verificar desenhos premonitórios, acredito que esta imagem mostra a combinação de dois lugares diferentes. Provavelmente, um é o local onde eu a vi morta numa cama. O outro local é um ambiente com um profundo significado emocional.
Caneta azul no meu caderno. 1986.

This sketch showing a floor plan from an ancient building was drew during the days when I relived the sequence of Vittoria Colonna's death in the early months of 1986.
Because of my experience on verifying my other premonitory drawings, I think that this image shows a combination of two different places. Probably, one is the place where I saw she lying dead on a bed. The other place is somewhere with a deep emotional meaning.
Blue pen on my notebook. 1986.

Pela última vez: 25 de fevereiro
"Deus ainda não terminou com você", me disse uma amiga que se interessou pela minha história, e eu concordei com ela. Eu havia acabado de ser "inspirado por Deus" a parar de falar da Vittoria Colonna e a apresentar a minha estranha vida como um diálogo direto com Ele. Hoje, eu não me escondo Dele, pois sei o que acontece. E assim será. Este é o último 25 de fevereiro como mistura de pesadelo e fúria. Esta é a última vez que lembro a morte de Vittoria Colonna.
Deus abençoe a todos.
For the last time: 25th of february
As I said to a friend, "I know that God did not finish with me yet. From now on, I will show my life as an accomplishment of His expression". When I said that to her, I have already been "inspired by God" to forget the supernatural that embraced my life since childhood and to show all the weirdness as a direct dialogue with God. So that's the way I will carry on my spiritual duty. This is the last 25th of february as a nightmare mixed with fury. This is last remembering of Vittoria Colonna's death. God bless you all.

Pela última vez: 25 de fevereiro / For the last time: 25th of february

Pela última vez: 25 de fevereiro / For the last time: 25th of february, originally uploaded by MichelAngelo▲.

Retrato/Portrait - Mistura/Mixture - Vittoria Colonna e/and Monica
Quando esboçava esta versão de uma possível imagem real da Vittoria Colonna, lembro-me de, no final, forçar o contorno do rosto e mudar as características da face para fazê-la parecerida com a Mônica, a garota que estava personificando a Vittoria em milhares de sonhos.
Giz Conté sanguine sobre papel. 1986.
When I sketched this version of a supposed actual image of Vittoria Colonna, at the end, I remember forcing the outline of the face and changing the features to make her look like Monica, the girl that was personifying Vittoria in countless dreams.
Sanguine Conté chalk on paper. 1986.

Pela última vez: 25 de fevereiro
"Deus ainda não terminou com você", me disse uma amiga que se interessou pela minha história, e eu concordei com ela. Eu havia acabado de ser "inspirado por Deus" a parar de falar da Vittoria Colonna e a apresentar a minha estranha vida como um diálogo direto com Ele. Hoje, eu não me escondo Dele, pois sei o que acontece. E assim será. Este é o último 25 de fevereiro como mistura de pesadelo e fúria. Esta é a última vez que lembro a morte de Vittoria Colonna.
Deus abençoe a todos.
For the last time: 25th of february
As I said to a friend, "I know that God did not finish with me yet. From now on, I will show my life as an accomplishment of His expression". When I said that to her, I have already been "inspired by God" to forget the supernatural that embraced my life since childhood and to show all the weirdness as a direct dialogue with God. So that's the way I will carry on my spiritual duty. This is the last 25th of february as a nightmare mixed with fury. This is last remembering of Vittoria Colonna's death. God bless you all.

Ressurreição - The Resurrection

Ressurreição - The Resurrection, originally uploaded by MichelAngelo▲.

aongarcia
The trumpet has trumped, and they rush to be the first at the gate. I like the crowded, muscular push of this.

MichelAngelo▲
This 1990 sketch is a development from a 1983 pen drawing. The other 3 are just thoughts about this one. Thanks, aongarcia.

Poema para o Apolo no diário de 1996

Fiz o que
me restou fazer
Fiz o que
pouco importa hoje
Era o meu último salto íntimo
no escuro
pelo puro prazer de expressar
o ser pelo imediato fazer
Nunca reneguei de fato
o sonho ou a loucura do querer
Mas era mesmo preciso
tanto sacrifício
tanto início
físico e psíquico
para só então
se chegar ao ululante
óbvio e gritante?
Mas o que importa hoje?
Talvez ter na memória toda a história
Talvez ter na memória tudo que se perdeu
Deus realmente não cria
É só parte da roda
determinante desta imortal agonia.

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A Busca por Refúgio
Desenho inspirado na escultura "A Busca por Refúgio" de Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor.
Drawing inspired by the sculpture "The Search for Refuge" by Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.246479505396873.83568.100001044762412&type=1&cmntid=248557551855735 — at Rio de Janeiro.

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: Michel, it's truly an honor and an exciting experience that you found inspiration in my work. Thank you very much for referencing me and my work in this context. I am grateful for your frienship, and always excited to absorb and experience your work, and share what your doing with all my friends here on facebook. Thanks a million, your work is truly outstanding brother. :)) hugs

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti: Thank you very much for your words, Jeffrey! I had promissed to myself to not draw anything new until I have developed all my 1980's designs, but I really got touched by the drama in your work "The Search for Refuge". I'm working on a plan to invade the urban space with my images and I feel that the idea of the seeking for some refuge is part of everyone's life. I stopped working with sculptures for a while to speed up the huge stencils that I'm making. One of these will be "The Search for Refuge".
It's great to find people on the internet that not get annoyed by my story and personal presentation. Since 2008 my life became an ocean of misunderstandings but it has been exactly what I expected. People in general don't get spirituality but there will be no excuse for the rejection of myself without even knowing my story and my artistic goals. The classical-theological knowledge behind my images, the irrationality of my nudes that unveils how I create them can only be ignored by a political decision against me. I will always keep an eye on those political enemies. But I will never forget the ones who now have their hearts and minds opened to dialogue me and help me to spread my spiritual experience. I know that I'm in the beginning of my last steps on Earth and I'm doing everything that I can to repair the huge mistake that I made when I decided to keep hidden my spirituality. Thank you very much, Jeffrey! Big Hug!

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MichelAngelo BuonaRoti on Jeffrey Rafuse's photo: Sky, clouds and the sun… all of them have a deep meaning to me. In 2008, during the production of my doc film, I was in a hurry to finish it, and in just one day I made all the external filming. I had never pointed my camera to the sky before that day. When I did so, the clouds were looking like wings. It was impossible to stop the tears from dropping. I was organizing the telling of my story, where I found myself as some kind of Icarus, whose melting wings was a stolen magic surfboard. This was one the photos:

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: Wow, I have goose bumps here brother. There is some type of connection then, between us...who knows what, but the sky photos and your experience that I absorbed on your documentary of The Icarus Experience...is shifting in some way. I'm very spiritual myself...so I believe everything that happens to me, and the people around me, is working in a type of dance of life...energy that is flowing from one person to the next, and throughout the universe. I went down to that spot today, because I felt drawn to do that. I was there a week ago, and slipped in between to big rocks, and my whole leg went down, an my ankle was jammed...had to pull it free, and heal it. One of my best friends in life, mentor and former President of a medical communications firm, lives now in Brazil with his wife. He is a born and raised California surfer, and public relations, among many other things is his art...really, the list is too long to explain how amazing he is. Maybe there is a connection here for some reason, that can get your story more of a voice internationally.

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: I need to ask you...why is the ankle of your sculpture broke, and your holding it up to the sculpture in the one photo. I have had 5 injuries on my right anlke over the past year...3 twisting it walking my dog Bubby, and one a 200 lb block of ice fell on it as i was unloading it at the winter carnaval, and last week the 5th was jammed between the rocks...

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti: Who knows, dude… who knows… I just can't miss a chance to explain myself no matter how many misunderstandings and disbelieves I will get in return. The important to me is to go public in the right way. There's no seeking for artistic sucess, nor fame and fortune, neither personal marketing for professional purposes behind my behavior. Only when everybody see what I'm going to expose as street art they will feel that I'm serious in my spiritual "war". I know that. But there's no anxiety in my daily routine. Since 2008 and to the very end, everybody will see me, telling my story, explaining myself, and expressing the art that was revealed among an uncanny movement of my hand. I just want to show that I'm not following any rational choice, just the beat of my heart.

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti: My sculpture didn't break, Jeffrey. In the begining of the film I wanted to suggest that there's something in my life that I'm not going to leave behind unexplained. The clay model was cutted in parts to the making of the plaster model. But if you are getting some new meaning in these scenes, I will enjoy to hear it from you.

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: As I mentioned when you first introduced me to your story, im am very interested in this, and I believe in what your doing 100%. I believe that this should become international news...l will do all I can to help you brother.

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: Well, the sky and clouds are one connection; and one of the old cloud pictures match a part of my clouds; my ankle has been injured many times and I have healed my self every time; and your a surfer and my friend is and he is a pro at getting a story told...and he is in Brazil... Your right, who knows what all this means at the present...but we mainly need to get your story out to the mass media...as soon as we can.

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: https://www.facebook.com/m​edia/set/?set=a.2265681573​88008.79884.10000104476241​2&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=​1811310174471&set=a.181130​9974466.2084194.1591500175​&type=1&theater

Jeffrey Rafuse Sculptor: That inclusion of your story on the post is the 23rd comment, and I was born November 23rd...and 23 is a very amazing number.

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti: Now I'm thinking… When I started shooting the opening sequence of Icarus, Contemplation & Dream, I didn't know exactly what to show. I wanted to reveal that my life had reached an exhaustion point. I made five different sequences to the edition work. It was insane to do it all alone. I knew that there was an unconsciousness process taking place when I noticed the synchronic relation of past and present. The number of elements linking to each other was imense. From time to time, I had to stop the work because of the emotion. The understanding of the past and the spiritual dimension that my life is imersed left me crying so many times that I thought that would impossible to finish the film. Today, it's a relief to know how to live my spiritual side: telling my story and expressing my art no matter how many difficult I'm facing. Thank you, Jeffrey, for the opportunity of explaining myself. One day, these two sulptures, The Deposition and he Apollo, shown in the opening sequence, will be casted in metal… And the meaning of everything will be different… Thanks, Jeffrey!

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David Wagdy gooooooooooooooood job

Meton Joffily de Alencar Cabulosao! Grande mestre! vai saber de figura humana assim na ... Itália porra!

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Thanks, David Wagdy!

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Valeu, Meton! Ae tô chegando na tua área lá no Jóquei!! hahaahahahahah Só falta uns testes de material e a execução da parada. Primeiro, eu vou mandar imagens emblemáticas da minha arte, começando por uma Sagrada Família, que é pura expressão do coração. Depois eu prometo coisas bem mais urbanas e ácidas. Abç!

Dritan Pilla po shume e fuqishme bravo bravo

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Shumë falemnderit Dritan Pilla
Unë shpresoj se përkthimi është i saktë.

Meton Joffily de Alencar me chama!

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Calma, Meton. A minha parada vai ser muito diferente e muito difícil!!! Ainda estou criando soluções técnicas para a situação. O investimento está sendo muito alto! Prometo, mais pra frente, que vou cair dentro do graffiti tradicional. Assi...See More

Dritan Pilla forma perfundimtare eshte ne gips

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Po, formë është hedhur. Unë shpresoj që së shpejti për të bërë këtë Zbritjen nga Kryqi i polisterol dhe tekstil me fije qelqi. Unë jam i studjon një teknikë për ekzekutim të shpejtë të punëve të madh të skulpturës. Ju faleminderit për interesin tuaj.

Dritan Pilla po ne bronx keni mundesi ta realizoni sepse eshte me jete gjate

Natasa Bozarova Pijanmanova Wonderful!!!

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Po, absolutisht.

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Thank you very much, Nastasa!

Almir Eraso muy buen trabajo maestro felicitaciones

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Gracias, Almir!

Almir Eraso me gustaria mucho aprender algo de su tecnica en el manejo del icopor

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Hola Almir. Le prometí a todos los admiradores de mi trabajo voy a publicar fotos de todos los detalles de mi técnica antes de tiempo (puede tardar un poco). Gracias por su interés.

Almir Eraso seria un honor contar con su visita algun dia en nuestros carnavales de negros y blacos en pasto

MichelAngelo BuonaRoti Ciertamente espero tener la oportunidad en el futuro. Ya he prometido que voy a estudiar el español hablado en América del Sur (conocido a un estudiante de Barcelona que hablaba español muy similar a la portuguesa. Yo no sabía que había tanta diferencia). : )

Zulu Aborigeni Sensasional!