Boy & Dog V2

The oldest companionship, X-rayed. A boy with a heart and an X where the chest opens; a dog wearing its skeleton on the outside; between them, a horned third eye radiating both ways. US PATENT # 1,974,483 — the 1934 electrostatic motor patent — filed where the leash should be.

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// At scale

Hung at museum height, 145 cm to centre

Year: 2026
Medium: Acrylic on canvas (Liquitex Soft Body)
Dimensions: 150 × 120 cm

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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 Arms150 × 120 cm

Three Angels by tijo (2026), 150 × 100 cm acrylic on canvas. A neo-expressionist landscape painting of three figures across a red-purple-blue gradient ground, each with an orange halo above the head. The two right figures also wear horns — angel and devil simultaneously. Far left: a black skull-head with white circle eyes containing black triangles and a wide white mouth of zigzag triangle teeth; a pink S letter stands at the chest with a red horizontal bar above it. Middle: a smaller black-faced figure with halo, horns, white circle eyes, and a simple grin; a pink R letter at the chest. Right: the dominant figure with electric-teal linework — almond eyes with yellow ring pupils, a coiled snake-shape nose with a small yellow key icon, and a white keypad-style mouth spelling 0 1 1 D $ under barbed-wire teal hatching. A blue side-panel lists USA, RUSSI, UNA, CHINO, DRONE, HORMUZ, AGREE, FRWWY stacked vertically in faint grey lettering. The canvas is densely annotated in pencil-thin black and red scrawl beneath the major motifs.

Three Angels150 × 100 cm

Mo-KNEE by tijo (2026), 120 × 160 cm acrylic and crayon on canvas. A neo-expressionist painting featuring a white skull labeled MONEY at the top, a skeleton torso with anatomical labels (HEART, KIDNEY, RIB, HIP, BONE), a red heart at center, and two flanking figures rendered in ochre and yellow. Brown earth-tone background with scattered text and binary numbers.

Mo-KNEE120 × 160 cm

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