À Flor da Pele — collection title in Vinny Olimpio's handwriting

2025 / 2026

À flor da pele expresses a state where emotions are so raw and vivid that they pulse just beneath the skin, barely contained. It describes the fragile beauty in the human capacity to feel life magnified to the point where the heart is laid bare and the soul trembles, exposed to the texture and sensation of existence.

Through free flowing textures and stain washes, this work reflects life in constant motion: unpredictable, fleeting, and often beyond our control. In contrast, the symbology represents intention, the meanings and structures we create to stay rooted in integrity within change.

Between fluidity and structure, chaos and purpose, the work embodies how symbolism becomes a way of grounding ourselves within shifting currents, ultimately revealing that beauty lies in impermanence.

À Flor da Pele is an offering of my deepest vulnerability yet, inviting the same openness in the viewer: to see ourselves as delicate blooms of nature that feel life all the way from the resilience of the core to the tenderness of the surface.

Vinny Olimpio yantra symbol

Day by day

Acrylic on canvas textile 
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames

145 × 264 cm

57.1 × 103.9 in

Turmoil

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames

143 × 110 cm
56.3 × 43.3 in

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Red Fever

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames

134 × 113 cm
52.8 × 44.5 in

Storm to Calm

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames

158 × 108 cm
62.2 × 42.5 in

Heart Beats Ego

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames

90 × 90 cm

35.4 × 35.4 in

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Blue healer

Oil and acrylic on linen canvas
Rice paper
Indigo coating

162 × 114 cm

63.8 × 44.9 in

Guilt and pleasures

Oil and acrylic on linen canvas
Rice paper
Indigo coating

160 × 134 cm

63 × 52.8 in

Dirty Little Tenderness

Oil and acrylic on canvas
Rice paper
Indigo coating

120 × 104 cm
47.2 × 40.9 in

Gentle Damages

Oil and acrylic on canvas

74 × 64 cm
29.1 × 25.2 in


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Hard to Touch

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

75 × 75 cm
29.5 × 29.5 in

Naked heart beat

Oil and acrylic on canvas
Urucum pigment   

94 × 94 cm

37 × 37 in

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Raw Desires

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

82 × 69 cm
32.3 × 27.2 in

Naked Nerves

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

138 × 134 cm
54.3 × 52.8 in

Sementes de Sol

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint


100 × 95 cm
39.4 × 37.4 in

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Hearts on Fire

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

164 × 194 cm
64.6 × 76.4 in

In the Heat of It All

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

130 × 100 cm
51.2 × 39.4 in

Healing Hurts

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

123 × 153 cm
48.4 × 60.2 in

Cocoon

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

115 × 79 cm
45.3 × 31.1 in

From thorns to bloom

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

75 × 75 cm

29.5 × 29.5 in

Gentle Throwback

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

73 × 71 cm

28.7 × 28 in

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Growth after the Storm

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

156 × 118 cm
61.4 × 46.5 in

Leaving old habits

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

78 × 64 cm
30.7 × 25.2 in

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Rusted Longing

Acrylic on Linen
Rice paper print with oil paint pigment

111 × 84 cm

43.7 × 33.1 in

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Circle of Hearts

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

158 × 158 cm
62.2 × 62.2 in

Pain and Bliss

Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

122 × 122 cm
48 × 48 in

Tamo Junto

Acrylic and Oil on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint

108 × 80 cm
42.5 × 31.5 in

Flor

Oil and acrylic on mix textiles
Angel’s Trumpet flower
Museum glass 

57 × 48 cm
22.4 × 18.9 in

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Corpo Fechado
Sealed Against Harm

Oil on printed cotton paper, brass nails on cotton and jute, woven in Brazil and Mexico

45 × 45 cm

17.7 × 17.7 in

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Peluchín

Hand-woven jute, cotton canvas paper
Hand-carved wood
Red wax

50 × 50 cm
19.7 × 19.7 in

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Suffocation

Oil and acrylic on wood
Rice paper
Angel’s trumpet flower preserved in glass for a year

45 × 35 cm
17.7 × 13.8 in

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Rising from Raw

Oil and acrylic on canvas
Hand-carved 

64 × 40 cm
25.2 × 15.7 in

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We are all crooked

Pigment on hand woven cotton canvas
Hand-carved

47 × 34 cm
18.5 × 13.4 in

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Bit by Bit

Weaved Mexican jute
Hand crafted frame

Clay tile

46 × 46 cm
18.1 × 18.1 in

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Angular, handwritten-style text that reads "Requests" and "Precept" on a plain white background.