Mariana Viel II Sticker This piece celebrates the extraordinary

This piece celebrates the extraordinary beauty of insects

but rather to invite contemplation of the monstrous as something noble and full of meaning

suspended between the human and the mechanical

The warm tones of the polychromy and the rough surface texture enhance its ancient and symbolic character

Sent by the Empire to uncover the origin of a possible conspiracy

Mariana Viel II Sticker This piece celebrates the extraordinaryThis child's face, carved with an almost archaic simplicity, conveys a quiet melancholy. The cracks and textures on its surface resemble weathered wood, as if salvaged from a shipwreck or unearthed from an ancient dream. The sleeping expressionalmost ritualisticsuggests silence, stillness, and endurance. It is a fragile yet powerful image, speaking of the passage of time, of lost childhood, and of the beauty that endures even in decay. Sculpture