{"title":"Featured","description":"\u003cp\u003eUse this collection to identify the 4 marquee paintings to place on home pages\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dog","title":"Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere's something almost zen about this one. Dog is a single brushstroke heart — open, unfinished on the left side, letting the world in. I painted it in black on white, nothing more, because some things don't need dressing up. An open heart is already everything. To me it's a symbol of peace, of making room — for people, for ideas, for the parts of life that don't fit neatly inside the lines. The stroke is loose, a little wild at the edges. That's intentional. Perfection was never the point. Openness was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56687774728579,"sku":"dog","price":1380.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/dog.portrait.webp?v=1779388045"},{"product_id":"no-kings","title":"No Kings","description":"\u003cp\u003eYellow like a raised fist. Yellow like sunlight that answers to no one. This is No Kings — a piece that came out of something I was feeling in my gut and needed to put on canvas before the moment passed. The heart replaces the 'heart' of the message, because to me that's always where real power lives — not in crowns, not in thrones, not in whoever decides they're above the rest of us. The crown sits right in the middle, dethroned by its own presence, framed by a declaration that feels as old as it does urgent. I painted it fast, loose, with broad strokes of pure cadmium yellow and raw black. No fussing. Some things don't need to be polished. They just need to be said.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56731791032707,"sku":"no-kings","price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/no-kings.portrait.webp?v=1777797940"},{"product_id":"american-experiment-pt-1-original-artwork","title":"American Experiment pt.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if the most powerful nation on Earth was built upon love? That question wouldn't leave me alone — and this is my answer, or at least the beginning of one. The stripes are all there, red and white, bold as ever. But where the stars would be, I put hearts. Fifty of them, give or take, glowing white inside a deep blue field. Not a flag exactly — more like a wish dressed up as one. America has always felt to me like an ongoing experiment, restless and unfinished, magnificent and contradictory. I'm an American living far from home, and I hold that distance like a lens. From here, I see both the fractures and the fire. This painting is not nostalgia and it's not critique — it's a question I keep asking. What would it look like if love were the founding principle, not just the rhetoric? Part one, because I don't think one painting is enough to hold that question.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57006154645891,"sku":"american-experiment-pt-1","price":2190.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/american-experiment-pt-1.portrait.webp?v=1777787007"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.hearts-colors.com\/collections\/featured.oembed","provider":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}