PART OF THE BIRTHDAY COLLECTION · A 2016–2026 RETROSPECTIVE
 
This original painting is part of The Birthday Collection, a 10-day retrospective bringing together 23 paintings created across a decade of my artistic practice.
 
I’ve always seen my paintings as fragments of me. Each one holds evidence of a particular season—what I was exploring, questioning, noticing, and becoming at the time.
 
For my birthday, I’m bringing these works together and offering them at special pricing. Their price is changing. Their value isn’t. I’m simply ready for these paintings to leave my studio, find loving places to belong, and create space for my next season.
 
Special Birthday pricing is available through August 29, 2026.
 
And because every painting deserves its birthday, each original collected during The Birthday Collection also includes three months of my new Snail Mail Experiment as my gift to you.
 
Studio Notes
 
Abacaxi means pineapple in Portuguese, one of my favorite Portuguese words and, conveniently, one of my favorite fruits.
 
Created in 2017 and painted directly on wood, this piece is pure playfulness.
 
I especially love the soft pastel yellows along the horizon and the contrast between those gentle colors and the tropical personality of the pineapple.
 
Sometimes a painting doesn't need a complicated reason to exist.
 
Sometimes you simply love a word, a fruit, a combination of colors, and you paint it.
 
Abacaxi is one of those little fragments of joy.
 
ARTWORK DETAILS
 
Acrylic on wood panel
12 × 12 × 1.5 inches
Ready to hang
Signed front & back
Certificate of authenticity included
Ships from Hermosa Beach, California (or studio pick up)
 
Drica Lobo’s paintings live in private collections across the United States, Asia, Europe, and Brazil.