{"title":"Art - Rene","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. Original and limited edition signed works — including prints, paintings, and drawings. Each piece is individually numbered and signed by the artist. Once sold, they're gone for good.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"what-remains","title":"What Remains","description":"\u003cp\u003eColored pencil, oil marker, and acrylic paint and pens on wood panel, 10\" x 10\", 2020 Signed lower right — Rene Juan de la Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA moment of tension held in ten square inches of wood. The panel is architecturally divided, isometric hexagonal planes built with the precision of a trained graphic hand carve the surface into distinct zones, creating a geometric structure that feels both designed and inhabited. Within that structure, two worlds exist simultaneously and in full confrontation with each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the right, one presence commands the space. A large crowned face, crown sitting directly above a spiral eye marked with an X that looks back at you without apology. Bold, calm, sovereign. The raw warmth of the exposed wood grain becomes its ground, its territory, its silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the left, everything erupts. A dense swarm of the artist's subconscious vocabulary blazes through fields of crimson and yellow, tiny crowned heads, X-eyed figures whose eyes are real and watching, halos, orbits, a spiky orb pulsing at the lower left, white dot trails dissolving into the chaos. Dozens of beings living, moving, peeking through the noise. At the upper right, a single simple outlined head watches the entire scene from a quiet distance, alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat holds it all together is what the crowned face refuses to do, react. It simply remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in 2020. The circumstances live in the tension, not in the title.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trixel-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548922507540,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2854\/0692\/files\/Untitled1-ArtRene_0526_Shopify.jpg?v=1779835529"},{"product_id":"eruption","title":"Eruption","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcrylic marker on wood panel, 10\" x 10\" — Rene Juan de la Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is what happy chaos looks like when it has been building for decades and finally gets a ten inch square of wood to erupt onto. Every character in the artist's subconscious vocabulary showed up at once, crowned heads, grinning jaws, X-eyes that are real eyes looking back at you, ghost-like dudes, spike-crowned beings, figures on wheels, orbits wrapping into faces, spiral forms spinning in place. Nobody left. Nobody was quiet. The raw wood grain bleeds through everywhere underneath it all, the only ground this world stands on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut look longer. Hidden inside the M-crowns, tucked within the larger forms, embedded in the chaos, there are characters watching. Still. Patient. Eyes peeking through the noise at you while everything around them erupts. The surface screams. The watchers say nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in 2021. That is the real composition. The eruption you see immediately. The witnesses you find slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trixel-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548922769684,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2854\/0692\/files\/Untitled2-ArtRene_0526_Shopify.jpg?v=1779835676"},{"product_id":"happy-dimension","title":"Happy Dimension","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePen on smooth 270 gsm bristol paper, 9\" x 12\", 2026 Signed lower left — Rene Juan de la Cruz, 02\/26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFour colors of ink. Black, red, blue, and green, move across smooth heavyweight bristol with the ease of a language spoken fluently for decades. No paint. No ground. Just the white surface and the line, unmediated, direct, exactly as the hand intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhat materializes is a dimension. Populated by an accumulation of beings, part human, part fantastical, fully themselves, that exist somewhere between this world and somewhere the mind invented. They are not portraits. They are not symbols. They are suggestions. Figurative abstractions of the human form rendered in the artist's DNA strokes, each one resolving itself in a handful of marks that feel inevitable rather than chosen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLook closer and the abstract visual poetry reveals itself. Happy mouths showing full teeth. Crowns and halos sitting on heads that might be faces or might be something else entirely. Orbits wrapping around eyes that look back at you with cautious warmth. Hearts. Love. The full vocabulary of joy, accumulated being by being across every inch of white space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is the subconscious at its most natural. No agenda, no specific emotional weather, just the hand moving the way it has always moved, since long before anyone was watching. The dimension was always there. The bristol just gave it somewhere to land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trixel-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548924309780,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2854\/0692\/files\/Untitled3-ArtRene_0526_Shopify.jpg?v=1779835797"},{"product_id":"bold-signal","title":"Bold Signal","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eColor pencil and black pen on smooth 270gsm bristol paper, 8.5\" x 11\", Signed lower left — Rene Juan de la Cruz, 02\/26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eYellow hits first. Not warm yellow, electric yellow, aggressive yellow, the kind that doesn't ask permission. Color pencil and black pen move across the bristol with accumulative force, building a composition that feels less drawn than transmitted, bold DNA strokes firing with the power of a practice decades deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAt the center of it all, a fantastical creature anchors the composition. Abstract, figurative, unmistakably alive, it has legs, feet with fingers, and a halo or orbit wrapping around its lower form like a signature. From this being, deliberately and quietly, comes the mark ICU. Three letters. An arrow. I See You. A statement of witness buried inside the most colorful aggressive piece in the collection, spoken by a creature that exists somewhere between this world and the dimension the artist's hand invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAround it the full vocabulary erupts in every direction. Beings on wheels. Orbital forms looping in blue, green, and red. Crowned figures. Creatures with bird beaks and crests that emerged not from intention but from the natural drift of the DNA strokes, the hand borrowing from the animal world without asking. A glowing eye at the bottom right watching everything with impossible calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAnd just above the artist's signature, before the hand finally rested, a red fantastical being orbiting the dimension, two forms merged into one. A closing statement. The last creature placed before the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is the subconscious at full signal strength. Nothing held back. Everything transmitted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trixel-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548925915412,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2854\/0692\/files\/Untitled4-ArtRene_0526_Shopify.jpg?v=1779835908"},{"product_id":"where-they-meet","title":"Where They Meet","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eColor pencil and ballpoint pen on smooth 270gsm bristol paper, 9\" x 12\", Signed lower center — Rene Juan de la Cruz, 03\/26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is the piece where both sides of the practice find each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the upper half, a bold geometric construction in red and blue anchors the composition, sharp, tilted, architectural, built with the precision of a graphic design trained hand. It doesn't apologize for being there. It holds its ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the corners, the subconscious vocabulary answers back. Lower left, a green dude stands in full de la Cruz signature form, Jetsons aerodynamic legs and feet suggesting motion even at rest, X-eyes that are still eyes looking back, and above his head additional eyes that speak of double thinking, a second consciousness running parallel, crowned with Athena-like forms that fuse wisdom and royalty into one small figure. Upper left, a red fantastical rooster rendered in pure linear abstraction, red and black strokes intertwining in quadrant triangulation with halos, transmits quietly from its corner the way a signal tower transmits, present without announcing itself. Upper right, a third being in red stroke emanates greens and blues outward, radiating light or sound or something between the two, electric against the white of the bristol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAt the center, a monumental red orbit holds everything in balance. An X inside it. The axis the whole composition revolves around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe state of mind was neutral. Not eruption, not tension, not aggressive force, just the two sides of a decades-long practice arriving at the same place at the same time, calmly, inevitably. The geometric and the subconscious. The constructed and the flowing. The graphic artist and the dude-maker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhere they meet, it turns out, is here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trixel-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548926701844,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2854\/0692\/files\/Untitled5-ArtRene_0526_Shopify.jpg?v=1779836019"},{"product_id":"lucid-dream","title":"Lucid Dream","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eColor pencil and ballpoint pen on smooth 270gsm bristol paper, 9\" x 12\", Signed lower center — Rene Juan de la Cruz, 02\/26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe mind was clear. Fully present, fully conscious, but turned inward, contemplative, watching the subconscious perform from a place of complete lucidity. What arrived on the bristol was choreographed in a way that only happens when the hand is both free and awake at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEvery corner is activated. Every being has a role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUpper left, a sideways red stroke dude moves with pure style and attitude, teeth showing cool, tongue coming through the triangulations, a suggested hairdo in the angular marks, yellow highlights bleeding into pinks and blue gradients giving him a luminous neon presence. He is not observing. He is walking. Strutting toward the edge of the paper like he has somewhere more important to be, already on his way out of the composition while everyone else stays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUpper center, a large powerful green creature commands the top of the page, wide and ferocious and joyful at once, full teeth showing in the signature de la Cruz smile, smaller beings orbiting around it in its gravitational field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLower right, a red dude punctuates the corner with graphically crafted legs, feet, and fingers resolved with deliberate precision. Not loose, not accidental. Built. A signature mark that slowed down just enough to make its point before the hand moved on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAnd on the right, the blue architectural dream form. Tall, arched, monumental, with eyes looking outward from inside the dream. Part figure, part structure, entirely dream. Every eye in the composition turns toward it. The green creature. The grinning central face. The small dudes on wheels along the left margin. The crowned figures. All of them looking at the same thing, something blue and architectural and just out of reach. And the dream looking back at all of them with its own eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAll of them, except the red dude in the upper left. He already decided. He's walking toward something else entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is what lucid dreaming looks like when the hand is the one doing the dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trixel-store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548927062292,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2854\/0692\/files\/Untitled6-ArtRene_0526_Shopify.jpg?v=1779836109"},{"product_id":"gathering","title":"Gathering","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eColor pencil and ballpoint pen on smooth bristol board, 9\" x 12\", Signed lower center — Rene Juan de la Cruz, 02\/26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLove arrives first. A large pink heart sits at the top of the composition, presiding over everything below it with quiet authority. Above it, a small red Saturn-orbit being floats freely, crowned, watching over the whole scene. This is the only piece in the collection that opens with the heart. Everything else follows from that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe large central form sweeps across the middle of the page, a generous arching presence in pink and cream, eyes looking back with warmth, a halo floating above it. Not a figure exactly, not a structure exactly. A feeling that took form. An embrace that became a being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAround it the gathering assembles. Upper left, a crowned figure with a halo and an orbit wrapping around it, elevation and spirituality fused into one mark. The full cast arrives in close, intimate proximity, the bold pink cat-like figure in the lower left with eyes wide and full teeth smiling, blue arched tunnel forms opening into space, a large white face with eyes looking directly and openly out, a lone watching eye near the bottom center that sees everything without judgment. Red beings with signature aerodynamic legs and feet move through the lower half. Smaller beings hold quiet conversation in the pink and magenta field on the right. The edges blaze yellow and green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe state of mind was colorful yet balanced. Nothing fighting for dominance. The full palette present and at peace with itself. Every being arrived, everyone accounted for, the heart at the top making sure nobody was left out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is the warmest piece in the collection. 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