FOSSIL I
Oil on canvas | 22×27cm | 2024
Original oil painting by Santi Pina
Fossil I features a single yellow butterfly set against an infinite black background. Its wings are open, delicate, and unmoving, not in flight, but in preservation. The absence of context or motion gives the insect a haunting stillness, transforming it from a living creature into an emblem, a relic, a trace of something that once was.
The title evokes both biology and time: this isn’t just a butterfly, it’s a fossil, the fragile imprint of a moment that can no longer return. The black void around it isolates the figure, heightening the sensation that we’re looking at something sacred, lost, or remembered from a distance.
This work is the first in a series of two paintings, each examining fragility through the lens of nature, stillness, and decay. Together, they question what it means to hold on, and what is left behind when we do.
Details:
Title: Fossil I
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Figurative, contemporary realism
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 22×27 cm
Signed by the artist
Includes certificate of authenticity
Worldwide shipping available
Oil on canvas | 22×27cm | 2024
Original oil painting by Santi Pina
Fossil I features a single yellow butterfly set against an infinite black background. Its wings are open, delicate, and unmoving, not in flight, but in preservation. The absence of context or motion gives the insect a haunting stillness, transforming it from a living creature into an emblem, a relic, a trace of something that once was.
The title evokes both biology and time: this isn’t just a butterfly, it’s a fossil, the fragile imprint of a moment that can no longer return. The black void around it isolates the figure, heightening the sensation that we’re looking at something sacred, lost, or remembered from a distance.
This work is the first in a series of two paintings, each examining fragility through the lens of nature, stillness, and decay. Together, they question what it means to hold on, and what is left behind when we do.
Details:
Title: Fossil I
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Figurative, contemporary realism
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 22×27 cm
Signed by the artist
Includes certificate of authenticity
Worldwide shipping available
Oil on canvas | 22×27cm | 2024
Original oil painting by Santi Pina
Fossil I features a single yellow butterfly set against an infinite black background. Its wings are open, delicate, and unmoving, not in flight, but in preservation. The absence of context or motion gives the insect a haunting stillness, transforming it from a living creature into an emblem, a relic, a trace of something that once was.
The title evokes both biology and time: this isn’t just a butterfly, it’s a fossil, the fragile imprint of a moment that can no longer return. The black void around it isolates the figure, heightening the sensation that we’re looking at something sacred, lost, or remembered from a distance.
This work is the first in a series of two paintings, each examining fragility through the lens of nature, stillness, and decay. Together, they question what it means to hold on, and what is left behind when we do.
Details:
Title: Fossil I
Medium: Oil on board
Style: Figurative, contemporary realism
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 22×27 cm
Signed by the artist
Includes certificate of authenticity
Worldwide shipping available
