{"title":"collage objects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollage on Canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese works are assembled slowly, by hand, from fragments of image and text—found material, printed matter, and remnants that carry their own quiet histories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach collage is an object rather than an illustration. The meaning is not fixed; it emerges through proximity, tension, and omission. What remains visible is deliberate. What is covered or cut away matters just as much.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey sit somewhere between image and document, devotion and interruption. Intimate in scale, but dense with feeling, these works ask to be spent time with rather than decoded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach piece is unique.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"thousands-going-blind-collage-2025-mixed-media-on-canvas","title":"\"thousands going blind\" (2025) — collage on canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis intimate collage layers found text, religious imagery, and archival fragments into a fragile devotional object. References to vision, testimony, and evaluation intersect with an image of care and annunciation, creating tension between spiritual seeing and cultural blindness. The work reads as both a private reliquary and a quiet warning—an artifact assembled from a world saturated with information yet increasingly unable to perceive what matters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642552467556,"sku":null,"price":1195.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/7AB7E469-3BF0-4B42-830D-E5C66DEBA197.jpg?v=1781217254"},{"product_id":"the-bad-children-an-apple-an-orange-collage-on-canvas-2025","title":"one in every seventy-five (an apple, an orange) (2025) — mixed media collage on canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis work gathers remnants of language and image into a suspended present. Facts, symbols, and observations drift without hierarchy, pointing to a condition in which reality is apprehended indirectly—through measure, repetition, and abstraction. The statistic marks not knowledge but distance: a counting that replaces encounter. The collage holds open a question of presence, asking what it means to witness a world increasingly known through fragments, and whether attention itself can survive its translation into data.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643225194596,"sku":null,"price":1045.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/D8C2B081-BA70-44EB-99B1-5D0BA639E31C.jpg?v=1781217625"},{"product_id":"hamburger-mecca-mixed-media-collage-on-canvas-2014","title":"\"hamburger mecca\" (2014) — mixed media collage on canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12\" x 12\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003esigned and dated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHamburger Mecca stages consumption as ritual. A dense spiral of bodies or structures encircles a dark architectural core, evoking pilgrimage, worship, and mass convergence. The familiar language of faith is quietly rerouted through the symbols of contemporary consumer culture, collapsing the sacred and the commercial into a single image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMade early in the artist’s practice, the work anticipates ongoing concerns with belief systems, collective behavior, and the architectures—physical and psychological—that organize modern life. Neither satire nor sermon, Hamburger Mecca presents a calm, unsettling proposition: that devotion has not disappeared, only changed its object.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47692665389156,"sku":null,"price":945.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/6E099EDC-FFED-42E1-A84E-6BD7B7D2E249.jpg?v=1781217748"},{"product_id":"fear-mixed-media-pen-and-sharpie-on-paper-on-canvas-2020","title":"\"fear\" (2020) — pen, sharpie and collage on canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis work records an atmosphere rather than an argument. A public figure appears reduced, almost withdrawn, while the word fear sits plainly beneath—neither caption nor accusation. A lightly drawn limb, fragile and unfinished, introduces the body as a site of vulnerability rather than authority.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than taking a position, the work observes how power is felt before it is understood: as mood, as tension, as something absorbed quietly and unevenly. Politics is presented here not as ideology, but as an emotional climate—one that settles into daily life, posture, and memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47692690718820,"sku":null,"price":1195.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/96C33F07-876E-45B3-BC20-713A7F561000.jpg?v=1781217538"},{"product_id":"a-sea-of-sand-and-silence","title":"\"a sea of sand and silence\" — collage on canvas, 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConstructed from collected fragments of text, image, and memory, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea sea of sand and silence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the space between what is remembered and what is forgotten. Layers of aged paper, found materials, and gestural marks converge to create a visual landscape that feels at once archaeological and deeply personal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAssembled from materials gathered over decades and generations, the work resists fixed interpretation, inviting viewers into a quiet dialogue with themes of absence, presence, mortality, faith, and transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn original, one-of-a-kind artwork by Santino Dela.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48531471335524,"sku":null,"price":1195.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/0X0A9270-Edit.jpg?v=1780810681"},{"product_id":"the-monk-collage-on-canvas-2026","title":"\"momento\" — collage on canvas, 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMemento is a meditation on mortality, silence, and the interior life. 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Layers of paper, graphite, and paint create a visual record of both concealment and revelation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than offering answers, Memento invites reflection on what remains essential when distraction falls away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48555471601764,"sku":null,"price":1495.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/F35A3833-5942-452A-B821-92FD8D69E209.jpg?v=1781218488"},{"product_id":"remains-mixed-media-and-oil-paint-stick-on-canvas-2025","title":"\"remains\" — mixed media and oil paint stick on canvas, 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRemains explores memory as a living, shifting force. 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