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

[Elia Selvaggio]

Hahaha and how would that benefit me in any way?

No, I just wonder where you go sometimes, when you go away.
Not physically. When you're not looking at me, but past me. Somewhere else.

[Patrick O'Connell]

Just a joke, love. I'd be a shite stuffed Pat.

If you mean like when I'm sitting there while you paint
...home. Ireland, back to the hills and the seaside and
The people I love

Like my uncle Greg

[Elia Selvaggio]

That's why we have to go there.

[Patrick O'Connell]

OR
You can paint me a little picture of a paddock with wooly sheep and a farmhouse! And an old Irish man smoking a pipe

[Elia Selvaggio]

You seem to really miss your uncle though. Maybe I can paint him too.

[Patrick O'Connell]

I do
He's getting on in years and I don't know how much time he's got left.

He's the only person who's ever loved me unconditionally.

[Elia Selvaggio]

Don't I?

[Patrick O'Connell]

Do you?

What does it mean to you?

[Elia Selvaggio]

Accepting somebody wholly as they are and not bending them to change.

Is it not the same?

[Patrick O'Connell]

That's not possible though. We all wish our partners would change
Even in tiny ways

[Elia Selvaggio]

Mm like how?

[Patrick O'Connell]

Welll
Don't you wish I'd stay home more? Don't you get annoyed when I leave?

Or when you tell me to do a pose and I don't do it "right"
But you know I'm only doing it to piss you off

[Elia Selvaggio]

Yes, but what do you want to change about me?

[Patrick O'Connell]

Only one thing

To live for yourself a wee bit more, instead of all for the art

[Elia Selvaggio]

You don't think I live beyond art?