DON'T OVER THINK by Diogo Landô
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Medium: Mix-media on Acrylic Box
Dimensions: 120 x 100 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $3200.00 USD
Status: available
DON'T OVER THINK Edition: Original 1/1 (w/ Certificate of Authenticity and serial number) Medium: Mixed Media Acrylic Box Size: 100x120x8 cm This work is created using a mixed-media process that combines collage, photographic fragments, graphic elements, and painterly interventions. Layers of torn paper, textures, and colour are assembled to build a dense visual surface where image and text coexist, overlap, and partially obscure one another. DON’T OVER THINK presents a fragmented portrait interrupted by typography, symbols, and rhythmic graphic lines. The face is divided and reassembled through vertical cuts, forcing the viewer to actively reconstruct the image rather than passively observe it. Eyes and mouth emerge through layers of visual noise, suggesting a state of tension between clarity and confusion, presence and overload. The phrase DON’T OVER THINK, applied in a direct and expressive gesture, operates both as instruction and contradiction. It cuts through the composition with urgency, echoing the mental pressure it seeks to resolve. Organic elements, such as butterflies and fluid lines, introduce a counterbalance—suggesting intuition, transformation, and release. The work reflects on the difficulty of remaining instinctive in a visually and mentally saturated environment, where thought can become an obstacle rather than a tool.
Why collect this work?
The portrait is split into upright bands and crossed by emphatic words, making visual recognition compete with the title’s warning against excessive thought.
- The artist’s supplied profile reports experience in design, art direction and photography. That background helps explain the deliberate collision of portrait, typography and graphic pattern in this work.
- In the photograph, eyes and mouth align only partially across the bands. Butterflies, dots and looping marks further interrupt the face, while “OVER THINK” becomes both a readable phrase and another obstruction.
- Catalogued as mixed media on an acrylic box, the work combines photographic, graphic and painterly elements. The format may support physical depth, although this single photograph does not establish how its layers are arranged.
- Made in 2025, the work provides a focused case study in divided attention: reading the command requires the same sorting and reconstruction that the command appears to discourage.
About the Artist
Diogo Landô
Diogo Landô is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Oliveira de Azeméis.
Nationality: Portuguese
My work begins with emotion! An impulse born from a continuous need to create.
