Heart(s) — Michael de la Guerra
Limited edition · 16 × 20 in. · Acrylic on canvas

Heart(s)

The painting no longer exists. This is what's left.

Original Acrylic on canvas, 16 × 20 in.
Year 2026
Print size 16 × 20 in.
Edition Limited edition of 25
Originals None — the canvas was painted over
Status Available
Heart(s) — limited edition print, Michael de la Guerra
Heart(s) — acrylic on canvas, 16 × 20 in. Original no longer exists. Limited edition

The original was called TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEART. There was an asterisk. The footnote read: yes, the one that hurts.

He finished it in 2026. Somewhere in the days that followed — he still doesn't know when, still doesn't know why — he painted over it. Not deliberately. One day he was ready to look at it again and it wasn't there. A different canvas. No memory of the decision. No explanation from the hands that made it.

He was heartbroken. He still is, a little. The warning is buried under white gestural marks that cross and cancel where the text used to be. The footnote survived. The instruction didn't.

The title became HEART(S). The parenthetical accounts for everything the painting lost — and for the fact that there is never just one.

These prints are the only record that the original existed.

The warning is gone. The footnote survived.
The edition
Heart(s) — framed limited edition print, shown on the wall
16 × 20 in.
$100
Size 16 × 20 in.
Paper Fujifilm Crystal Archive
Process Giclée inkjet, professional lustre
Stability 133-year archival
Edition 25 — hand-signed and numbered
Year 2026

16 × 20 in. Fujifilm Crystal Archive, giclée inkjet on professional lustre paper. Hand-signed and numbered. Edition of 25.

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