{"title":"Available Originals","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tangled-in-wildflowers","title":"Tangled in Wildflowers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003eOriginal 12X18 inches. Mixed media oil painting on canvas, ready to hang. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003eHeliophilia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat golden hour in August\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFireflies in a forest ballet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFlowers blossoming in a flume\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe prickly cactus in the scorching desert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mellow marmalade\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeaside highway\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOverexposed perception, washed out in white\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYellow obsessions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLocks of pastel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA monet painting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA basketball court, where I scrape my knees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA field of flowers, dancing to the melody of the sun's rays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA glowy dew scintillating on the sand shores \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sun blinks, and suddenly there is night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDust sprinkles from his lashes as clouds tickle the sky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut alas, he wakes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCast as a glare upon our irises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is the love of sunlight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn addiction to morning, opposed to the slumber of night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTransfixed, suspended in a matrix of grace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLight moves, diving from stillness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"texteditor-inline-lineheight\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"texteditor-inline-fontsize\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe dawn breathes, before waking the earth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168874098781,"sku":null,"price":810.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/tangledinwildflowers_97385d58-6f42-4bc4-be80-8587ed962629.jpg?v=1768854683"},{"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":"golden-flower","title":"Golden Flower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e30x48 inches. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMixed media oil painting on canvas. SOLD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI developed an interest in Carl Jung’s mandala art and the images he drew in Liber Novus (1913-30), his personal journal filled with drawings and recollections of visions from the unconscious. Jung was asked by Richard Wilhelm to write commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower, a Chinese text combining Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian thoughts on inner alchemy meditation. In the commentary, Jung included a mandala drawing from Liber Novus, the first time he had publicly shared his interest in mandala art and tantrism. The book details a kind of meditation practice focused on the circulation, fixation,  and contemplation of light in the body, attuning to the heavenly consciousness of the heart and preserving the seed of life to balance between action and non action. By harnessing the rhythms of breathing and refining the movements of the material plane, one becomes more aligned with the primordial spirit. The Golden flower is the essence of the primordial spirit. There  are many medieval and ancient texts which suggest that cooking and preparing food is a form of alchemy (by which materials are chemically transmuted), a famous instance being Maria the Jewess’ (circa 1 AD) invention of the bain-marie (double boiler) apparatus. In this painting, two women wearing straw hats pour a substance, the elixir of life, into a river submerged with clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44142617624669,"sku":null,"price":2946.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/GoldenFlower.jpg?v=1768856130"},{"product_id":"picnic-at-hanging-rock","title":"Picnic at Hanging Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003e20x20. Mixed media painting on canvas. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the Peter Weir 1975 film, Picnic at Hanging Rock. 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There is something so visceral about the way they embody the transience and flux of memory in time: certain things stand out to us, burrowed deep into the folds of years past and yet some impressions stand out clear as day, as real as the texture of your favourite coat, or the crisp lines of building contours. I read somewhere in a psychology textbook on sensation and perception that “objects can be acted upon, while space can be acted within.”  The book’s focus was on perceptual operations and sensory stimulus and response, but something about this sentence struck out to me, generating an automatic, abstract response in the form of a painting. An array of lights slants down in an arrow-like shape towards the children’s table and chair, a chessboard game sitting atop. I had taken a picture of this exhibition of lights at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, which flickered rhythmically to the audio of a beating heart. Some of the lanterns were shaped in flowers and hearts, suspended from the ceiling and hanging in the darkness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44142657241181,"sku":null,"price":1302.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/fernandez_calia_spacecanbeactedwithin.jpg?v=1768933438"},{"product_id":"down-south-nola","title":"Down South (NOLA)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginal 22x30. Mixed media oil painting on heavyweight, cold press ribbed-edge cotton rag paper. 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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":"psyche-eros-reimagined","title":"Psyche \u0026 Eros Reimagined","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e22x30. Oil painting on heavyweight, coldpressed, cotton-rag free paper with ribbed edges.  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe story of Psyche and Eros originates from the ancient Roman novel Metamorphoses by Apuleius, and involves a long drawn out plot of Cupid’s accidental falling in love with the mortal Psyche, who undergoes many trials and tribulations to appease the gods, particularly Venus. I made a sketch of the famous sculpture, Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (1787) by Antonio Canova a few years ago, and upon finding it again I thought to depict their blissful reunion; the child of Cupid and Psyche is supposedly Voluptas or “pleasure,” and so delightful apricots and flowers sit in the sink. In many visual renderings Psyche is depicted with butterfly wings, as to represent the neoplatonic freedom of the soul from the body, when Psyche becomes immortal. Love crosses all borders and boundaries, and deepens with self awareness. Love is that verb which can't be defined, but defines everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calia Fernandez Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44142694727773,"sku":null,"price":1582.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/4895\/8813\/files\/PsycheandErosReimagined.jpg?v=1768934884"},{"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. 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