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Research

My research begins with the understanding that matter is not inert: it vibrates, breathes, preserves memory, and carries invisible forces.

Wood, brass, stone, steel, glass, light, density, weight, and structure become, in the studio, living fields where gesture and silence reveal internal presences. Each work emerges from the encounter between minimal tension and latent force: the moment in which the physical world exceeds its own logic and begins to manifest sensitivity.

Throughout the four movements of my investigation — Transcendence, The Nothing Between, Immanence of the Interval, and Transfiguration of Matter — I explore how form ceases to be merely function, volume, or surface, and begins to exist as presence.

This research also expands into sculptural design, where function is not treated as utility alone, but as another condition through which matter may become presence.

I am interested in what vibrates beneath the surface: what expands within the interval, what emerges from pause, what breathes inside matter. Matter is not an object; it is an organism. Each deviation — a displaced sphere, a rise, an opening, a luminous body — transforms form into an event.

At this point, the visible meets the invisible, and matter embodies an immanent spirituality: the silent miracle of matter that feels.

Detail of black textured volcanic sculpture with a single sphere on top — Otávio Motta

A deeper reading of the conceptual foundations behind Sensitive Matter — including presence, interval, vibration, immanence, and transformation.

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