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  • A rooster with NYC in the background
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    Oracle Rooster

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    A rooster with NYC in the background
    A rooster with NYC in the background
    Oracle Rooster
    The Rooster Oracle (2025) is an homage to the rooster as a mythic herald straddling day and night, tradition and transformation. Against the skyline of New York City, the creature’s iridescent feathers shimmer with Caribbean heat—emerald, copper, and indigo—while its gaze fixes toward a rising moon. In Caribbean and Latin American folklore, the rooster is both guardian and messenger, crowing at thresholds between worlds. Here, it becomes an emblem of diasporic rhythm and survival: an ancestral clock reminding urban life of its rural pulse. The hybrid body—part bird, part scaled creature—symbolizes the layered identities of migration, faith, and cultural inheritance.

    Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork on archival premium paper &  canvas glicee

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  • surreal layered painting with a large glowing moon above two animal heads, a New York City skyline across a river in the middle, and below, toy-like animals, a doll, and a green parrot arranged on a wooden surface. The composition blends cosmic, urban, and childhood imagery.

    We Were Animals Once

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    surreal layered painting with a large glowing moon above two animal heads, a New York City skyline across a river in the middle, and below, toy-like animals, a doll, and a green parrot arranged on a wooden surface. The composition blends cosmic, urban, and childhood imagery.
    We Were Animals Once
    We Were Animals Once (2025). This is a piece that envisions the layered realities of memory, culture, and place. Animals are our first toys (at least for some of us children of the 80’s) and memories of these tiny plastic tokens in the shape of animals that at that age we consider dangerous, but in playtime they become our friends. In the process they shape our personality into being separate from the animal, and denying or failing to see we are also animals. Because we are tiny  we are larger and in control of the animal now shrunk into a toy. This piece reflects directly on the sense Beneath a vast moon that glows like a cosmic guardian, toy animals and a child’s doll gather before the skyline of Queens, New York. A parrot—emblem of migration and survival—watches over this surreal assembly, carrying Caribbean memory into the urban landscape. The painting bridges the intimacy of childhood with the complexity of adult identity, recalling a time when small plastic animals became our first companions. Through play, we learned dominance and tenderness, forgetting that we too are animals. The layered composition—part dream, part recollection—merges nostalgia, diaspora, and ecological awareness. The toys, both fragile and eternal, speak to the persistence of imagination, the separation from innocence, and the universality of play. In the end, the work reminds us that our earliest understanding of kinship began with creatures, real and imagined, who continue to shape the stories of who we are. Childhood never leaves us, yet we become separate from it as adults. But in the end, as in the beginning, we all play with the same toys.
    Dimensions: 48 in x 54 in. Original artwork painting. oil on canvas, some mixed media. 
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    DISCLAIMER: All Paintings and images here are original artworks, property of this website, copyrighted and owned by Loli Mari Montalvo. Arcrylis. oils and/or mixed media are realized on canvas, linen, masonite and other materials (acrylic glass, wood, and metal) All digital works are also the property of the artist and are available for sale. This collection of artworks is meticulously printed with archival inks for lasting vibrancy. I work with a printer and we use fade-resistant, pigmented inks offer superior color range, favored by fine art and photography enthusiasts worldwide. We also provide Archival Premium Paper, and other professional-grade fine art and photo papers to choose from, so the prints resist yellowing and aging, ensuring longevity and quality.
    Prints: Each project’s unique details are provided upon the purchase transaction. Then you can choose from preferred sizes or customize up to 40×60 inches. In addition to paper, we offer printing on acrylic glass, wood, and metal—providing versatile options to suit any space or style. Discover the difference of archival ink printing on premium materials—elevate your surroundings with timeless artworks today.  This print comes out in stunning color!
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