Love

2018
Mixed Media on Canvas 
4 panels, each 12 x 12 inches

Collector’s Notes

Composition:
This four-panel work spells out the word LOVE, with the “O” transformed into a heart — the universal symbol of affection and compassion. Each letter holds a world within, layered with intricate textures, hidden patterns, and bursts of color. The design is both bold and tender, balancing graphic clarity with painterly depth.

Color & Light:
The palette is richly multicolored, evoking the diversity of love in all its forms — from passion and romance to friendship, family, and self-compassion. Soft glows of turquoise and pink contrast with deeper tones of red, gold, and black, creating a luminous interplay of light and shadow. This duality reflects the joy and warmth that love brings, alongside its inevitable struggles and sorrows.

Medium & Texture:
The mixed media layering creates a vibrant, almost tactile surface, encouraging close inspection. Every stroke and detail seems to whisper a story, symbolizing the countless nuances, shades, and variations of love — its complexity, unpredictability, and beauty.

Style & Story:
This piece straddles pop-art boldness and soulful abstraction. While the typography lends clarity and structure, the background textures suggest the ever-changing, multifaceted nature of love. By transforming a simple word into a textured universe, the artist underscores how something so small in letters can be so vast in impact.

Emotional Connection:
Love radiates positivity, warmth, and contemplation. It invites viewers to reflect not only on the love they give and receive, but also on the conscious choice required to nurture it. The work is at once celebratory and thoughtful, reminding collectors that love is both an anchor and a journey — a light that must be kindled continuously.

Context & Significance:
Created in 2018, this piece serves as a timeless statement on the human condition. By emphasizing that love is not just a noun but also a verb — an action, a practice — the work resonates deeply across cultures and contexts. Its format as four panels also makes it versatile in display, adaptable to both intimate and expansive settings.

Message from the Artist

This work is a meditation on love in its most elemental form — not romantic alone, but expansive, enduring, and transformative. I wanted to paint not the fleeting rush, but the steady warmth that binds and sustains us through life’s storms.

The textures and hues are layered to suggest both passion and tenderness, the fire and the calm that love holds in balance. Even in moments of turmoil, love persists like an undercurrent, quietly stitching us back together.

For me, Love is both anchor and horizon. It is what roots us in connection and what invites us forward into possibility. In creating this piece, I was reminded that love, at its essence, is not something we possess, but something we continually choose and renew.