Buy with confidence
Free shipping & returns
Shipping and customs included. 30 day free returns
Certificate of authenticity
Signed and included with every artwork
Framing
Make your artwork stand out
Customers rate Singulart 4.9/5
Singulart is rated 4.9/5 by over 20,000 customers
Rafael Paiva
United States
Related collection
New mediterranean
16 pieces
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Discover the creation in interiors
Other artworks by Rafael Paiva
Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 48x36in
About this artwork
The Quiet After Us explores the lingering presence of humanity through a surreal architectural landscape suspended between memory and disappearance.
Monumental structures, reflective water, and fragmented symbolic forms create a space that feels simultaneously ancient and futuristic - a world shaped by human consciousness, yet absent of human life itself.
The sculpted face embedded within the architecture acts as both witness and relic, while the… distant birds introduce a subtle return of life and movement into an otherwise still environment.
Through muted light, symmetry, and negative space, the painting reflects on themes of impermanence, silence, and what remains after civilization fades.
Rather than depicting destruction, the work imagines a quiet transformation - a contemplative world where nature, memory, and symbolism continue to exist beyond us.
This is a 36 x 48 X 1 inch oil painting.
Monumental structures, reflective water, and fragmented symbolic forms create a space that feels simultaneously ancient and futuristic - a world shaped by human consciousness, yet absent of human life itself.
The sculpted face embedded within the architecture acts as both witness and relic, while the… distant birds introduce a subtle return of life and movement into an otherwise still environment.
Through muted light, symmetry, and negative space, the painting reflects on themes of impermanence, silence, and what remains after civilization fades.
Rather than depicting destruction, the work imagines a quiet transformation - a contemplative world where nature, memory, and symbolism continue to exist beyond us.
This is a 36 x 48 X 1 inch oil painting.
Rafael Paiva
United States
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Rafael Paiva is a Brazilian-born, Los Angeles based, self-taught artist with a background in photography, editing, painting, and filmmaking, constantly experimenting with new materials and techniques. His work spans detailed figurative storytelling, abstract pieces with textured spontaneity, and surreal, symbolic fantasy, all blending narrative with intuitive mark-making. Through his art, he conveys emotions inspired by dreams and transformation, inviting viewers to experience the intimate phases of the mind and the beauty of inner change.
Rafael Paiva
The Quiet After Us
$4,300
