{"title":"paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese paintings are records of attention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorking primarily with oil stick, spray paint, and raw canvas, I create images that exist somewhere between memory and observation, abstraction and recognition. Rather than offering fixed meanings or clear narratives, the work invites reflection, leaving space for viewers to bring their own experiences, associations, and questions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany of these paintings explore themes of impermanence, devotion, loss, beauty, and the fragile nature of being human. Layers are built, erased, obscured, and revealed, mirroring the way memory itself accumulates and transforms over time. Figures emerge and disappear. Crowds gather and dissolve. Structures are constructed and undone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an era increasingly shaped by speed, distraction, and artificiality, these works are an attempt to slow down and pay closer attention. Each painting becomes a conversation between intuition and intention, chaos and order, presence and absence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbove all, the work is an invitation: to look longer, to feel more deeply, and to encounter something that cannot be fully explained.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"inner-knowing-oil-stick-on-canvas-24-x-36","title":"\"inner knowing\" (2021) — oil stick on canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInner Knowing (2021)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24” × 36”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil paint stick on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInner Knowing is a work shaped by intuition rather than instruction. Forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure without hierarchy, suggesting an interior landscape held together by attention rather than certainty. Color and line operate as felt decisions—responses made in real time—allowing ambiguity to remain intact rather than resolved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis painting resists a single reading. It invites sustained looking, rewarding patience over interpretation. What appears is not a message, but a state: something sensed before it is named.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal work. One of one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643005026404,"sku":null,"price":1895.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/928D6703-531F-4D18-A721-2B6281673CEB.jpg?v=1781218306"},{"product_id":"c1","title":"\"C1\" (2026) — oil paint stick and sharpie on raw canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil paint stick, oil, and Sharpie on raw canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24 × 36 in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC1 is a painting about containment rather than expression. Layers accumulate without resolving into a single image, holding multiple gestures, colors, and impulses in suspension. Marks emerge, overlap, and recede, resisting hierarchy or narrative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe raw canvas remains exposed, not as absence, but as pressure—space that absorbs and restrains what is placed upon it. Color is buried rather than displayed. Line appears and withdraws. Nothing fully declares itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis work is not intended to illustrate an idea or arrive at a conclusion. It exists as a record of compression: a moment where everything was held, and nothing was allowed to dominate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC1 stands as a finished condition, not an unfinished question.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47763511836772,"sku":null,"price":1895.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/2B1DAD72-90E3-45FA-A2B1-1E6873A1E11C.jpg?v=1781218261"},{"product_id":"a-crowd-without-faces-oil-stick-and-spray-paint-on-raw-canvas-2024","title":"\"a crowd without faces\" (2025) — oil stick and spray paint on raw canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea crowd without faces (2025)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24” × 36”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil stick and spray paint on raw canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea crowd without faces presents a dense accumulation of forms pressed shoulder-to-shoulder, stacked and interlocked until individuality dissolves into mass. Rounded shapes suggest bodies or heads without ever resolving into portraits—presence without identity, proximity without recognition. The absence of faces becomes the point: anonymity as both shelter and erasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMuted whites and greys dominate the surface, disrupted by sharp incursions of cobalt, rust, ochre, mint, and black. Thick, assertive lines act as both borders and sutures, holding the composition together while exposing its tension. The raw canvas breathes through the paint, and drips and abrasions remain visible, resisting polish or narrative closure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not a depiction of a crowd so much as the feeling of one—compressed, restless, unresolved. The work sits between order and overwhelm, intimacy and distance, asking the viewer to confront what it means to belong while remaining unseen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal, one-of-a-kind artwork, signed by the artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47768636457060,"sku":null,"price":1895.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/BB896B03-1142-4885-9B12-7849278F5B2B.jpg?v=1781218145"},{"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. A partially obscured photograph emerges through layers of paint and gesture, blurring the boundary between documentation and experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeep violet fields and luminous blue forms create a sense of both depth and transformation. The image is neither erased nor preserved; it is altered, carried forward, and made new. What was once fixed becomes fluid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work reflects on what persists after a moment has passed—the traces, emotions, and fragments that continue to shape us long after their original source has faded from view.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"santino dela ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48555473829988,"sku":null,"price":1495.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/8018\/7492\/files\/C86B86ED-102B-465F-9CBA-F5440E88663B.jpg?v=1781218858"}],"url":"https:\/\/santinodela.com\/collections\/paintings.oembed","provider":"santino dela ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}