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tijo.

EST. 2025PAINTERTOTEM-MAKERTALISMAN-FORGER

I paint death — with a smile.

A visual form of alchemy: turning the profane into the profound, existential dread into an approachable companion. Paintings, totems, and talismans for facing the dark.

I PAINT DEATH WITH A SMILE✦THE PROFANE INTO THE PROFOUND✦TOTEMS · TALISMANS · CANVAS✦ALCHEMY IN ACRYLIC + OIL STICK✦CREATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY✦EST. 2025✦I PAINT DEATH WITH A SMILE✦THE PROFANE INTO THE PROFOUND✦TOTEMS · TALISMANS · CANVAS✦ALCHEMY IN ACRYLIC + OIL STICK✦CREATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY✦EST. 2025✦
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Apophis by tijo (2026), 160 × 120 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist landscape painting on a black ground, depicting a dollar-sign apartment building on the left, a hairy GOAT figure in the center with the word "Goat" inscribed, and an orange-robed figure with raised arms and a horned purple-pink mask on the right. Includes the text 17 KM/S, MPH, 500, and 3,000,000 — a reference to the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.
Apophis
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas · 160 × 120 cm · 2026
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Bear Arms by tijo (2026), 150 × 120 cm acrylic and paint pen on linen. Two cartoon bears stand side by side against a deep ultramarine night sky under a scribbled pale full moon. The central purple teddy bear has white-ringed blue saucer eyes, pink inner ears, a pink snout, a red-framed mouth grid of white triangle teeth, a red heart on its chest, a hatched repair patch on one shoulder, and POWER lettered in dark blue down a cobalt strip at its hip. Its arm rises behind a smaller black bear with orange horns, orange flames burning inside white eyes, a single black tear, and fur scratched with a pentagram, stacked triangles, crosses, a star, a broken heart, 666 and other numbers. A large red balloon floats above them on a string. On the left, white missiles with lettered bodies, the tallest reading PATRIOT, climb on yellow flame trails over a small scrawled city and a row of green pines; quadcopter drones hover in the sky, small red balloons drift on white strings, and one white rocket bursts through a red balloon in an orange explosion. A royal-blue panel of scrawled words, INNOCENCE among them, fills the lower right beside the black bear’s leg.
Bear Arms
150 × 120 cm · 2026
Purrgatory by tijo (2026), 200 × 160 cm, painting on canvas. A neo-expressionist frontal cat face filling the entire canvas: a yellow and gold mane radiating outward in long strokes, edged by a continuous looping black scrawl; two large orange eye-masks holding half-closed eyes — white with blue half-moon pupils and single gold-stroke lashes; pink-lined triangular ears; a dark plum triangle nose; and a monumental grin of two rows of thick white squares set in an orange lattice framed in gray, spanning nearly the full width. Black whisker strokes scratch across a light green panel and an ochre panel on either side of the mouth.
Purrgatory
200 × 160 cm · 2026
Impactual by tijo (2026), 300 × 150 cm, painting on canvas. A neo-expressionist panorama: at left a large purple-and-black beast in profile with a red-and-white eye set in a dark ring, a long jaw lined with white zigzag teeth, and an ochre-yellow slab across its chest, set against a cobalt-blue panel scrawled with pale glyphs. At center a black volcanic cone erupts in dense orange, yellow and coral scribble that spreads across the upper canvas in scratchy crayon lines. To the right, the word DIE is lettered three times in chalky pale strokes on a dark ground; beyond it a large cream moon ringed in warm pink and orange hangs above a small black spectacled creature perched on a horizontal wire. In the lower right, three round green flower-creatures with wide red grinning mouths and blue eyes stand on thin black stems in a field of green and magenta marks.
Impactual
300 × 150 cm · 2026
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