NOTe FOR YOU by Diogo Landô
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Medium: Mix-media on Acrylic Box
Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $3000.00 USD
Status: available
NOTe FOR YOU Mixed media in acrylic box Original 1 of 1 with digital card of cretification. NOTe FOR YOU is a layered mixed-media work that explores perception, message, and emotional residue through fragmentation and contradiction. Using Diogo Landô’s signature approach, where collage, painterly gesture, photography, and graphic elements collide, the piece unfolds differently depending on the viewer’s position and attention. Within the composition, fragmented phrases emerge and dissolve: HAVE A NICE DAY, ALWAYS, YOU CAN. These affirmations coexist with imagery of flowers, graffiti markings, and references to classical sculpture, creating a dialogue between tenderness and disruption, permanence and ephemerality. The floral elements suggest fragility and growth, while graffiti introduces urgency, instinct, and raw expression. Classical references anchor the work in time, acting as a silent counterpoint to contemporary visual noise. From the exterior, the dominant reading becomes NOT FOR YOU. A graffitied “E” intervenes, transforming refusal into intention—NOTE FOR YOU. A torn paper element partially reveals the phrase ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU ARE…, deliberately left incomplete. The absence becomes the message itself, inviting the viewer to project meaning, memory, or self-definition into the void. Encased in an acrylic box, the artwork reinforces the tension between protection and distance, visibility and separation. NOTe FOR YOU is not a closed statement, but an open emotional structure. One that oscillates between intimacy and denial, encouragement and exclusion. Ultimately asking who the message is for, and what remains when words fall short.
Why collect this work?
Oversized, interrupted lettering makes a personal message hesitate between affirmation and refusal: “NOTE FOR YOU” can momentarily register as “NOT FOR YOU.”
- Landô’s artist profile reports earlier work in design, art direction, and photography. That background helps explain the controlled collision here between typographic hierarchy, cropped photographic faces, and gestural marks.
- In the photograph, three stacked words occupy most of the composition. Faces, flowers, scribbled lines, and blocks of colour fill or cross the letters, while the smaller handwritten phrase “Always Remember You Are” remains conspicuously incomplete.
- Catalogued as mixed media in an acrylic box, the work combines distinct visual registers and encloses them behind a transparent boundary. The medium may intensify the tension between intimate address and physical separation without resolving the phrase’s ambiguity.
- The work is a useful encounter with language treated simultaneously as message, image, and obstruction. Its competing readings expose how a minor graphic intervention can shift encouragement toward exclusion, then back again.
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.
