Liquid Gloss® 06 | 0353 | Red Balloon Love I by MikoArt
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Medium: Digital artwork printed on Fuji Crystal DP II Ultra HD photographic paper, permanently bonded to 4 mm AluDibond and hand-finished with an approximately 3 mm layer of Liquid Gloss® epoxy resin.
Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $2650.00 USD
Status: available
In this painting I present a powerful piece of street art with a strongly emotional and symbolic charge. On a weathered, cracked wall we see an elderly couple, hand in hand, executed in black-and-white stencil style. The man leans lightly on a walking stick; in her other hand the woman holds a bright red balloon. The red balloon forms the visual and semantic centre: it contrasts sharply with the monochrome figures and the drab wall. The balloon symbolises youth, hope, love and playfulness, and seems almost ironic set against the age of the couple. At the same time it suggests that joy and imagination do not disappear with the years.The physical bearing of the pair — leaning forward, but determined — radiates both vulnerability and connection. Their walking hand in hand emphasises fidelity, lifelong love and growing old together. The peeling wall reinforces the sense of transience, while the balloon adds life and colour. The blue border around the work creates distance from the raw street context and raises the image to an almost iconic art object. The combination of realistic old age, simple stencil technique and a single powerful accent of colour makes the work both tender and confronting.The blue border forms part of the Epoxy Liquid Gloss and is not a physical wooden frame. NFT information Red Balloon Love I is an original digital artwork by MikoArt from the Liquid Gloss® 06 series, created as a unique 1/1 NFT. This NFT is issued only once. The digital NFT and the physical MikoArt artwork are sold separately. Copyright and reproduction rights remain with MikoArt. Artwork details Edition: Unique original artwork (1/1) Technique: Digital artwork Support: 4 mm aluminium composite (AluDibond) Finish: Hand-finished with approximately 3 mm Liquid Gloss® epoxy resin Production: Produced to order Production time: 10–20 working days Presentation: Ready to hang with professional hanging system Certificate: Supplied with a signed Certificate of Authenticity NFT details and links Blockchain: Ethereum Contract address: 0x366b74fe20f7cef7cc451e8dd59d7280e94a0d4b Token ID: 216 Relationship: The digital NFT and physical artwork are sold separately. Rights: Remain with MikoArt View the NFT on OpenSea View the NFT on Manifold View this artwork on the MikoArt website
Why collect this work?
The supplied photograph shows a tightly packed geometric abstraction whose diagonal structure turns a square field into an image of outward propulsion, despite catalogue text describing a different figurative scene.
- MikoArt describes a practice of translating digital compositions into physical objects. Here, repeated circles, beveled bars and saturated gradients foreground digitally controlled precision rather than the street-art imagery named in the catalogue description.
- Nested targets anchor the right and upper-left areas, while interlocking chevrons accumulate around the centre. Fine diagonal lines and scattered spheres extend this dense core toward the edges, balancing compression with apparent expansion.
- The documented format is a digital print on photographic paper bonded to aluminium composite and coated with epoxy resin. That construction may intensify optical depth and reflection, although neither surface gloss nor exact colour can be confirmed from the photograph.
- The work is particularly relevant for examining how digital illusion, physical finish and catalogue identity can diverge. Its title and description make that discrepancy part of the encounter, raising practical questions about which record identifies the artwork.
About the Artist
MikoArt
MikoArt is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Mechelen, NL.
Nationality: Dutch
Fueled by my versatile creativity, a constant quest to create, and my sense of color and image, I finally found my own individual creative...
