Patrick Gorman Pettis' Blog

" . . . . with eyes closed I could understand something that perhaps it is not me but the things that need me that provides me with the power to move and go, and I understood then that, basically, if it (anything really) was to be it was up to me and that I needed to not do it alone but to draw all of the strength of all of those connections and become an adult and simply knowing that was enough, so after some silly fit and medium term discomfort quietly I went and now I am here and it is really quite beautiful where I am today, this moment and right now. I thank the best and beyond of me for that each day, I am grateful but know myself well enough now and after all of this "growing up" to state that I am still not done yet. There's always plenty to do, but even more than that I find myself interested and actually quite passionate about people's lives. Lets just say I'm alive, smart, with a healthy curiosity - I have my druthers about me young man, now pour...

"You mean each breath we take there is enough power to fuel a light bulb? Can you imagine if we were to run to something at the same time?! Holy Crap." - Kaityn A. Marlboro Mass, age 11 Zephreil by Patrick Gorman Pettis 20 inches in height by 16 inches in length on pine framed cotton in natural inks stains and dyes valued at 1,727 USD by the Filopoly Board of Fine Arts What happens to us when it seems as though the world we know and the one we wanted has left us behind? We cope or suffer or both and either live or die from it. And there is no testament to strength to either simply example as to how and why the rest we can choose to keep private or share. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIDt97zQgY The Angel Zephreil was once known as the Angelic force " ZAPHREIL " allowed it to serve as primary spy on behalf of the Name's into the Lucifer's very organized in dependant curiosities . This creative force could change its nature and walk into the dark side...

- "Uriel" by Patrick Gorman Pettis 36"h x 24"l on framed cotton canvas completed 07/2008 in natural medium as part of the 2008 Angelic Series The Angel Uriel assists us to convert our greatest disappointments into the source of our grandest triumphs if we are strong enough and open enough to let it happen. Have you ever been so disarmed by someone else's actions that you hurt as though you were a child being beaten by a Leviathan? That feeling puts one in a place where you are powerless to stop it, you are that defenseless against it and you do not know when it will end. More so you fear to be forever changed by it. During those moments for some there is a hero known as the Arc Angel Uriel. My inspiration behind "Uriel" was one at first of a rather specific and terrific disappointment. If one can see it, it wears itself on the canvas that way at first. However through time with this force of nature it then became what my definition of strength was i...