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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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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
A Pack of Lips by tijo (2026), 300 × 160 cm, painting on canvas. A neo-expressionist menagerie across a three-meter canvas: at left a pink line-drawn winged figure with a ringed-planet head stands in deep indigo night painted over a textured gold under-layer; at center an orange double-coil sends a red beam into the mouth of a long-necked green creature with a purple horn, a red eye, a stitched grin, and purple rings across its body; a small green crocodile with a toothy grid grin carries a red imp across the creature's back through hand-drawn flames, under a burning orange curtain barred with black. Two grinning green daisy-flowers stand at its feet, and in the lower left a small house with a red roof and two wide blue eyes watches over a sleeping beige mound-creature.
A Pack of Lips
300 × 160 cm · 2026
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