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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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Water Wars by tijo (2026), 120 × 140 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist portrait of a green-skinned figure with mismatched eyes (a yellow frame and a red frame), a yellow dollar-sign chain wrapping the head like a noose, and a red WATER WAR name-tag taped across the mouth. The figure wears a purple military uniform with SPECIES stencilled on the shoulder; NATO yellow-and-black prison bars at the chest. Background dense with text including IN GOD WE TRUST, A.I., LIGHT, HUMAN, currency symbols, year dates, and mathematical operators.
Water Wars
120 × 140 cm · 2026
The King by tijo (2025), 80 × 60 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist portrait painting of a blue-skinned king with white asterisk eyes and KING stencilled across his teeth, holding an ice cream cone scepter. Vivid orange, yellow, purple, and red color blocking. Surrounded by the words BLOOD, DIMOND, DESTINY, CREAM, ABS · SS, MIX and dollar signs.
The King
80 × 60 cm · 2025
Untitled by tijo (2025), 80 × 80 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist portrait of a blue-skinned head with a pink brain visible through the skull, a single red eye, a square-toothed grin, and a red horn at the crown. A DNA double helix marked with a TM stamp sits on the left of the canvas; a pink hand reaches up on the right. A red heart is centered in the chest. Surrounded by floating dollar and euro symbols on a yellow-orange ground.
Untitled
80 × 80 cm · 2025
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Dog & Boy v2.

160 × 120 cm · ELITE WAR · in progress

The archetypal, age-old iconography of a boy and his dog, and the deeper remnants of the dog star, keep the connection between the astral and the earthly — a slice through the center, through the leash connection that both leads and follows.

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