My angel close your eyes I'll be your lover tonight

[Elia Selvaggio]

Not by you, anyhow. :/

[Patrick O'Connell]

We'll call them abstract art and sell them off anyhow, love. Someone will buy them, there's all kinds of feckin idjits out there.

[Elia Selvaggio]

I don't care about the money.
It's the mark I leave behind after I'm gone that I'm worried about.

And none of
Nothing I've created feels

Monumental

[Patrick O'Connell]

What about the impression you leave in
People?

In me? In your friends? That's significant too isn't it?

Or do you want more people to remember you when you're gone?

[Elia Selvaggio]

It's not significant enough.
When I'm gone and you're gone and they're all gone, what's left?

I need something that
That changes the art world as a whole

[Patrick O'Connell]

...and you think maybe a picture of me will do that?

You are bloody brilliant though.....

[Elia Selvaggio]

It's your essence. Something inside you.

[Patrick O'Connell]

If anyone can find it, it'd be you.

They'll be looking at my mug for centuries to come... Haha! Imagine that

[Elia Selvaggio]

You could be the next Mona Lisa or Girl With The Pearl Earring.

[Patrick O'Connell]

Oi
I'm not being compared to women!

If I'm going to be famous in a painting, I want to be
The Scream. Hahaha!

[Elia Selvaggio]

Well.... The Scream is much more ubiquitous, isn't it?

[Patrick O'Connell]

That was the first painting that made me feel something.

It makes me feel anxious. Like I don't know what it is about that one but every time I look at it I just feel the walls closing in.

[Elia Selvaggio]

What do mine make you feel?

The ones you're not in?

[Patrick O'Connell]

I feel YOU in them. Your
Spirit? Passion?

It makes me feel like... how I feel when I watch you paint. I don't understand all of them, just like I don't understand all of you, but my chest gets tight when I

I think about all the effort you put into them
All the love and attention to detail
All of yourself poured into these paintings for people to see

Some of them scare me, too

[Elia Selvaggio]

They scare me too
sometimes.

There's some kind of rush I get when I spill my true vulnerabilities down on the canvas. All my love, my dreams, my happiness. But all of my rage and fear and sadness, too. The ugly parts that I started out hiding... It's hard to let those feelings go and pour them out sometimes.

Will people think less of me? Will people even know what they're seeing?
Most don't, you know.
But you've got a real eye for it. I'm surprised you're not as dedicated as I am. I feel like you have the talent.