Axis 1 – The Encounter

“There are so many stages that, when the sculpture is finally revealed, I meet it as if being introduced to a presence I did not yet know. Each work is a surprise, a being that looks back at me. I create it, yet it is the one who recognizes me.”

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Axis 2 – Matter and Time

“I live in a time where everything is interconnected. Stories merge with the mystery of the universe, where cosmos, technology, and faith become one. Everything within me converges; every sculpture bears a fragment of the past, the present, and an imagined future.”

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Axis 3 – Presence and Silence

“When matter calls for silence, time slows down. There is a moment when the sculpture ceases to be mere form and becomes presence. Presence is shaped by the gaze of the one who sees it. Each observer awakens a unique vibration, and the sculpture renews itself within this invisible dialogue between the one who creates and the one who contemplates. It exists in that space between seeing and feeling, where the act of looking completes creation. It is there, in the invisible pause between stillness and feeling, that the work finds its soul.”

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Axis 4 – Form and the Invisible

“In mid-flight, when my body was surrendered to the sky, I was crossed by a force with no name. The invisible called me and for an instant, everything within me became matter of light. Since then, I have understood that each work is born from that place where the spiritual touches the physical, where energy chooses to have a body. My sculptures are that prolonged instant, the awakening of what cannot be seen, becoming presence. I do not create to represent the invisible. I create so that it may find form.”

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Sculptural Manifesto · Volume I Completed

Mylene Costa · 2025

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“The work touches us, chooses us, and listens to us.”