Through my skin
An exploration of memories in Tomás Delft's life, interpretations, and ways of seeing the world that are different from others. A set of writings from remarkable moments in a life, gathered in a single collection, full of feeling. It was created to be seen in a way other than his own. The beginning of a deep introspection into the life of Tomás Delft.
Buy The Ticket, Enjoy The Ride
“I’m in a big and undiscovered world, I’m there in the middle and I don’t know how to emerge, I’m the real needle in the haystack. Everything centers on me, my interpretation of the things I see, the shapes, my point of view. the decision of good or bad it’s up to me to decide, it’s up to me to decide how much it affects me, it’s up to me to decide that you can´t find happiness in things, you must be, do & belong. Happiness is pure imagination of the mind, it´s a feeling that occurs in my body and that the head interprets. That’s why the feeling that comes from what I see, it’s for me to decide, through my interpretation.”
Title: Buy The Ticket, Enjoy The Ride Acrylic on canvas | 100 × 70 × 4 cm Photo: Dinis Mota Unique painting
Toujours Il Me Manque, On Doit Chercher De La Chance!
“The less I think, the less there is, the stronger it gets. Why? I don’t know, but the truth is that the more I know, the less I understand and the more I identify. This is difficult now, dealing with what was left behind, the not visible but that is there, that haunts me. It is not a sweet pear, this unique pain of mine alone, expressed in a single form of expression and exported into future anxieties. Everything stays forever and whenever I remember it, I give it more importance.”
Title: Toujours Il Me Manque, On Doit Chercher De La Chance!
Acrylic on canvas | 30 × 30 × 4 cm
Photo: Dinis Mota
Unique painting
Failure Is Not Having The Courage To Try
“It’s not running away, it’s Going, just going, sometimes it’s enough. I went and began to understand the world, cultures, new ways of being, walking, living. I started to define myself. Inside, the search for me began, who am I, who I will be... The anxiety of what will come came, the fear of not being able to appear, and then I couldn´t be. Then I stopped and realize that my being is not molded by what happens, but according to what I define, what other beings think does not define me, I am and I will be who I want to be. Then I understand that going is the best thing for the soul once in a while.”
Title: Failure Is Not Having The Courage To Try
Acrylic on canvas | 70 × 50 × 2 cm
Photo: Dinis Mota
Unique painting
Outro Eu Que Não Eu
“I can’t imagine another me, it’s funny, how it would be... Different certainly, genuine in its way of being, certainly. At least I want to believe that, that other actually exists, but we don’t talk. We don’t dislike each other, but we just don’t need to talk. and we cross from time to time, at different times and different ways than our own. We actually become another being when being both.”
Title: Outro eu que não eu
Acrylic on canvas | 100 × 70 × 4 cm
Photo: Dinis Mota
Unique painting
Ser Partilhado
“It appears in the unexpected, strongly, then a feeling of being with being. Pure moments of shared energy followed by sudden feelings of happiness at the same time, I feel the same but not the same form. Opposites as positive and negative energy sources that attract each other, I cross ideas, I’m not understood as a whole, I focus on myself. I try to understand how to be, before this being, I adapt but I don’t stop being. This is being shared.”
Title: Ser Partilhado
Acrylic on Cotton | 35 × 38 cm
Photo: Dinis Mota
2 Unique paintings
O Inevitável
“The chance come with the occasion, but it is not by chance that it happens. Some days I agree that the pieces do not fit. I need them to fit, that they form my chance, failure occurs and I focus on what I should do, on what I could have done. I need something new, different but with nothing to do about it, other day the missing piece comes, but I don’t want it anymore, I don’t need it anymore. I won’t go back to that. Then I come and appears the inevitable, for the better.”
Title: O Inevitável
Acrylic on canvas | 100 × 150 × 4 cm
Photo: Dinis Mota
Unique painting
Momentos
“Ahh tradition, where are you? Lost by those who innovate, altered by words, a synthesis of what once was and is no longer. Tradition is a moment, a smell, a sound, a moment that involves us in the past, embraced by memories of a time my eyes have seen. In the game of the broken phone, therein lies the tradition. The trick is to try to keep it by creating new moments, keeping the smells, the sounds, and what I see, creating moments that fill the soul with warmth for moments I already had. Mine alone will remain for me, today and tomorrow have already changed. I still have the moments I had. Thank you my Alentejo for reminding me of those beautiful moments.”
Title: Momentos
Acrylic on canvas | 40 × 40 × 2 cm
Photo: Dinis Mota
Unique painting