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JxV Love Fest: illustrations for my friends’ wedding

My friends Joana and Vasco got married in July 2024 – and hosted the most fabulous summer festival-type wedding (with a proper stage and lineup)!

Back in 2023, they had asked me to draw the imagery and stationery for the event.

It was an honour to create a set of illustrations that were then combined in different ways to form:

  • A hero banner for their website
  • A bracelet for the festival goers
  • Table name cards
  • The menu card
  • Seating charts
  • Individual place cards for all the guests.



Ceci n’est pas uma referência a Call Me By Your Name (2021)

Acrylic and graphite on canvas

The current overexposure to screens (which worsened during the pandemic and as a consequence of remote work) set the tone for a reflection about the dynamics of postmodernity. Here, the mobile device is considered an element of mediation. A self-inflicted filter – one that is used by millions.

This work references, on the one hand, classical elements of Art History (still life, the horizon, analogue painting) and, on the other hand, the constant-spotlight-phenomenon inflicted by social media. “Please don’t Instagram me: I just want to live and perish”.

We are all simultaneously victims and enablers of social media’s hecticness, as we consume Pop gossip, post pictures of food, and create memes like there is no tomorrow.

This piece seeks to honour the past, criticise the present, and promote critical thinking about our collective future and individual behaviour. It fails, however, in providing the viewer with answers about what that future will look like.

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