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Artwork 19

Love Police

Guns are not cool. But this is a cool gun.

Dimensions
60 Ă— 30 cm
Material
Canvas Print
Finish
Wooden frame, ready to hang
Shipping
Manufactured locally, in your country

About this work

Love Police fuses an anatomical heart with a turquoise handgun, firing beams of rainbow color instead of bullets. The exposed muscular hand, pale banknote ground and repeated ten-unit marks make the object both medical, official and absurd.

As investment art, it fits pop surrealism, anti-violence art, anatomical art, love symbolism and strange currency parody. It is instantly readable from across a room and still odd up close.

The reversal is the whole point. A weapon becomes a transmitter of color and feeling, turning enforcement into emotional force.

Love Police merges a realistic anatomical heart with the body of a turquoise handgun. An exposed muscular hand grips the weapon, while the heart replaces its central mechanism and vivid bands of pink, blue, green and cream radiate from the barrel.

The surreal object sits on a restrained ten-unit banknote whose engraved borders and pale security textures contrast with the saturated central burst. Repeated numerals and the simple label “Love Police” give the impossible device the official appearance of an issued instrument of authority.

By transforming a gun into a delivery system for color and affection, the image reverses the usual relationship between policing and force. Its visual joke carries a pointed proposal: authority might protect through empathy rather than fear, and power might be measured by its capacity to animate rather than harm.