The works of contemporary artist Demetrio Dela Cruz are executed in a realist manner combined with different media and materials. Painted in a pop surrealist style, the composition is arranged into a narrative contemplating the use of technology. It shows a young boy’s transition into the digital world as he enters a new phase, trying to decipher the coding language. Demetrio Dela Cruz bagged the Top 30 Jurors’ Choice at the Philippines Art Awards in 2001. He was declared the grand prize at the Daler Rowney Philippines Art Competition in 2005. In 2006, he received the Top 5 Jurors’ Choice Award at the First National Drawing Competition and the Philip Morris Art Awards for his paintings, www.daing.com and Images. In 2007, he won the grand prize at the Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition. He received his advertising degree from the Far Eastern University in 1992. Dela Cruz staged his first solo exhibition, interARTive in 2008 at the Art Center in SM Megamall where his thirty interactive mixed media paintings of daing, tinapa and other figurative works were accompanied with lights, sounds and actual dried fishes to allow the public to witness a complete art sensory experience. His recent solo exhibitions include Mishandle With Care, Art Fair Philippines, The Link Makati City Philippines (2020) and Fragile, Boston Gallery, Cubao Quezon City Philippines (2019).