{"title":"free association","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMaximalism meets surrealism. These works explore the thresholds and axes of sense\/imagination, unities\/systems, whole\/parts, intuition\/reason. Immerse yourself within figures and forms whose individualism merges into abstract play, line motifs, and imagined landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eLight seeps in from the backyard and trickles quietly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eIn streamlike slivers.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eI wish the window in my bedroom were longer and wider,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ein the way that I feel I could jump out at any moment\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003einto the world\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003etime slipping like sand through my fingers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eor finely ground coffee beans.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWaiting, wondering, wandering, waiting,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ewhat is there to wait for, exactly?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eSome core to emerge, that isn’t here already?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eMaybe if the bedroom led into a glass greenhouse\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWith opal green ferns and palms,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eA serpentine spiral staircase\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAnd oblong doors\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWith lots of vegetable beds good for pickled radishes, thyme,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eMint; the taste of mint on my tongue is\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eA fresh amber sun speckled with traces of someone,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBefore the event and after the fact,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAnd it’s a pity that the birds ate all the mint outside.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eMaybe the trunk in the closet could open up into a stairwell leading down\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003einto heaven’s basement, the balkan peninsula, the romantic sublime,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ea cottage in southern France.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eForest nymphs with chrysanthemum chains of hair sitting in the treetops\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAnd a heraclitean river glides underneath,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ea beast lapping water by the bank.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eTransported back to\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ecandied pistachio writings and creative exercises,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003elike recovering an old friend in a different city,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eor recovering your childself as your oldest friend.\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"energeia","title":"Energeia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e30x40. Mixed media oil painting on canvas. SOLD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnergeia roughly translates as ‘being-at-work,’ based on Aristotle’s theory of actuality and potentiality in motion, in Physics. It determines that the end and completion of a being is its being-at-work; that is, exerting its natural forces and properties, acting according to its own nature. In Aristotle’s theory of time, the now acts as the link of time, in which the now manifests as the midpoint of a beginning and an end; however, the now is not a point of rest, for it always divides potentially, calibrating itself to a time that is not now (Physics IV. 222a10).  Moreover, particular predicated entities do not come about as primary substances in Aristotle, but always consist in a process of ‘coming to be’ and ‘passing away’: “a limited thing [at each stage], yet always one thing followed by another. The final cause of a thing, or its telos, is not to be misinterpreted here for a quantifiable, linear sense of finitude, but rather the magnitude of the now as equally closed and open, conditioned by past and future causes and yet distinct from them. In magnitudes, what was taken remains, while in the case of time and human beings, what is taken is destroyed but in such a way that the supply does not give out” (Physics III.6.206b), suggesting a principle of energetic conservation in the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44141216759901,"sku":null,"price":2466.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/energeia.jpg?v=1768855532"},{"product_id":"fountainhead","title":"Fountainhead","description":"\u003cp\u003e22x30. Mixed oil painting and collage on heavyweight paper, ribbed edge cold press \u0026amp; cotton rag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe three figures represent the Moirai, the Greek goddesses of fate who spun the thread of destiny for each mortal and divine being. Moirai (e) means ‘parts,’ ‘portion,’ and ‘right.' The trinity are comprised of Klotho, the “Spinner” of the thread of life, Lachesis, “obtainer by lot or proportion” who measured it, and Atropos, “without turn,” who symbolises the inevitability of death or cutting of the thread. The Moirai are usually depicted as old crones dressed in white robes. Here they are symbolised as young women. Marvel within the threshold of myth, between visible and invisible worlds...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44142685782109,"sku":null,"price":1445.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/fountainhead.jpg?v=1768934113"},{"product_id":"to-be-of-service","title":"To be of Service","description":"\u003cp\u003e22x30. Mixed media painting on heavyweight, cold pressed cotton-rag paper, frame included. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e3-month and 5-month payment plans available - inquire via email. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by some of the theosophical and occult  influences on pioneer abstract artists of the 20th century, artists like Kandinsky, Jan Toorop, and even Piet Mondrian began to learn of the concept of formlessness and form, as well as the Buddhist seven planes of existence and tantrism. In Europe and Russia these artists began to express Eastern concepts, alongside with emerging scientific evidence, which posited that the physical planes too were expressions of the spiritual and transcendental, using abstract forms to express inner vision, the vibration of colour and the spectrum of emotions. Abstract line elements and shapes in Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich inspired this piece, which is a bursting forward of the sublime. Fix yourself upon the movement of the dancers, frozen against the backdrop of blue mist and a glowing wheel of prophecy and constellations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eLight seeps in from the backyard and trickles quietly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eIn streamlike slivers.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eI wish the window in my bedroom were longer and wider,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003ein the way that I feel I could jump out at any moment\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003einto the world\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003etime slipping like sand through my fingers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eor finely ground coffee beans.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eWaiting, wondering, wandering, waiting,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003ewhat is there to wait for, exactly?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eSome core to emerge, that isn’t here already?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eMaybe if the bedroom led into a glass greenhouse\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eWith opal green ferns and palms,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eA serpentine spiral staircase\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eAnd oblong doors\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eWith lots of vegetable beds good for pickled radishes, thyme,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eMint; the taste of mint on my tongue is\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eA fresh amber sun speckled with traces of someone,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eBefore the event and after the fact,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eAnd it’s a pity that the birds ate all the mint outside.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eMaybe the trunk in the closet could open up into a stairwell leading down\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003einto heaven’s basement, the balkan peninsula, the romantic sublime,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003ea cottage in southern France.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eForest nymphs with chrysanthemum chains of hair sitting in the treetops\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eAnd a heraclitean river glides underneath,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003ea beast lapping water by the bank.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eTransported back to\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003ecandied pistachio writings and creative exercises,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003elike recovering an old friend in a different city,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003eor recovering your childself as your oldest friend.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44142703312989,"sku":null,"price":1585.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/serviceandchange_30702330-66b7-4824-9f6e-1bc9067a7c0d.jpg?v=1768935434"},{"product_id":"qualia","title":"Qualia","description":"\u003cp\u003e24x36 inches. 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They merely multiply, like tree branches, simmering into the surfaces of more complex and winding turns, and in times where it felt like all that is solid melted into air, the root of being never left. On this voyage of variations, I have questions. Have I traveled “into the interior”? If so, what have I seen there? Do variations always go forwards, or do they unfold backwards, the theme revealing itself at the end, or hidden in plain sight? Themes are not linear, they spiral and propagate, forming a mesh, a net of root systems. 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