Named for the Titaness of the night sky and falling stars, Asteria represents the boundary between darkness and light. The matte finish on the black marble scattered with fossils reveals its form slowly in the darkness. The work stands as an imagined relic of an ancient cosmology, where stone, light, and time were once aligned, and as a mechanism for us to experience these elements today in our own lives.
Asteria is carved from black marble, a material formed under immense pressure and time, its density absorbing light rather than reflecting it. The sculpture rises as a narrow, monolithic body—its sides polished into disciplined planes, its crown left fractured and unresolved, as though interrupted mid-formation.
Studio Marcus Vinicius De Paula
Asteria
Asteria
Materials
Materials
Black Italian Marble, Blue LED, Acrylic
Dimensions
Dimensions
8.5” X 8.5” X 54”
