Love Birds by Diogo Landô

Medium: Mix-media on Glass Brick

Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm

Year: 2026

Price: $498.00 USD

Status: available

Love Birds Mixed Media Glass Brick 20 × 20 × 8 cm Edition: 1 of 14 unique/original pieces Number: #1 This artwork is created using mixed media applied within a glass brick, combining collage, photographic imagery, paint, and graphic elements. The transparent structure introduces depth and light as active components, allowing the layered composition to shift subtly according to the viewer’s position and the surrounding environment. Love Birds presents a bold, emotionally charged image where a bright, dripping smiley face overlays a heart-like form, surrounded by flowers, birds in flight, and fragments of symbolic and urban imagery. The smile operates as a familiar visual language of happiness and immediacy, while the surrounding elements suggest intimacy, fragility, and connection. The birds act as gentle interruptions—symbols of freedom, movement, and fleeting moments within a dense emotional field. The work explores love as something joyful yet complex, often filtered through idealised symbols and visual shortcuts. The glass brick functions as a veil, softening and containing the image while keeping it slightly out of reach. Love Birds reflects on how affection, optimism, and desire are constructed and displayed, suggesting that behind bright icons and romantic gestures lies a layered emotional reality—tender, imperfect, and deeply human.