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Nebulae presents
Ojo de Arte — luminous organic sculpture
Nature created the form.
Light reveals what was already there.
Luminous organic sculpture · David Morera · Costa Rica
The manifesto
Nature is the first artist.
Ojo de Arte is born from deep observation — from the search for the hidden potential in every found piece of wood. Water, wind, time and accident shape each form long before anyone sees it. The artist does not impose a new shape: he accompanies the one that already exists, respecting its history and its scars, until the piece can shine on its own — returned to life through light.
“I did not invent Ojo de Arte.
I had the fortune of finding it.” David Morera
For years, David Morera felt that his way of seeing was dormant. He had a good profession — construction engineering — and he was grateful for it. But something was missing. One morning, driving to work, he prayed with complete honesty: “Thank you for all of this… but mine is to create. When I am not creating, I feel empty. Help me become an artist.”
What followed, he describes as an awakening. His way of observing changed. Where he once saw a discarded piece of driftwood, he began to see sculptures waiting to be discovered. He does not believe the pieces became art when he worked on them — to him, they were already art the moment he found them. He rescued them because he could see something that was not yet evident to anyone else. His work, he says, was only to help them reveal the potential they always carried inside.
The eye
It was found,
not designed.
During a spontaneous stop to watch the sunset, David found a tiny fragment of wood lying in the sand — a piece shaped like an eye, its concentric veins recalling an iris. The name Ojo de Arte was already on his mind. This finding confirmed it.
It is the smallest work in the collection, and its representative: the piece that most needed Ojo de Arte in order to be found. It was sanded without altering its silhouette — and it became the symbol of everything that followed.
To have Ojo de Arte is to perceive beauty, potential or meaning where others do not yet see it.
The logo was born from a real work — not the other way around.
Day / Night
One sculpture.
Two revelations.
By day, a work must stand on matter alone — silhouette, grain, scar, presence. When night falls, light does not decorate it: it reveals a second identity that was always latent. The first revelation happens when the piece is found. The second, every time darkness arrives.
Day · Matter
Night · LightBrisa — drag to move between the two readings
The collection
Founding pieces
Seven works created this language. Five of them open the gallery.
The origins
Before the gallery,
there were gifts.
Ojo de Arte is organised like a genealogy: founding works that opened a word of the language, and collections that descend from them. Two origins are told here — the wave that first held a moon, and the smallest piece of all.
Founding pieces are presented as part of the origin story of the collection.
The process
Eight quiet acts
01FindA form is noticed among thousands. The work begins long before the workshop.
02ObserveSilhouette, veins, voids, scars — the piece is read like a biography.
03ListenNo idea is imposed. The piece is allowed to suggest what it wants to be.
04UnderstandThe right idea is the one the form itself can sustain. Some pieces wait years.
05InterpretLight, moon, ring, sand — meaning is built with restraint, never decoration.
06EngineerChannels, supports and hidden systems are designed to be exact — and reversible.
07IlluminateLight is added to signify — never only to illuminate.
08ProtectEach work is finished, sealed and built to be maintained without being harmed.
The invisible craft
Engineered
to endure.
David Morera is a construction engineer. In Ojo de Arte, that discipline is not a separate trade — it is a form of respect. After the meaning appears, a harder question follows: how to build it in the most correct way possible.
Embedded LED channels. Levelled and plumbed rings. Concealed connections. Components fixed with screws, never trapped. Circuits that separate with clean connectors. Every work is designed to be dismounted, serviced and repaired — without ever wounding the wood.
“A future repair should never force us to harm the work.” Design principle · Ojo de Arte
The seal
More than
a signature.
From the original eye-shaped piece, David made a mould — and a small cast of it accompanies every sculpture that leaves the studio.
A signature says: I made this.
The seal says something else: this piece was seen —
found with attention, interpreted with patience, built with care, and protected
from beginning to end. It joins each work to one same way of looking.
The artist
The eye
behind the work.
David Morera (Costa Rica) is a construction engineer who spent years designing stages and spaces before the practice found him. In 2024 he founded Ojo de Arte — not as a style, but as a way of seeing.
His works have been shown at El Despertador (2025), in continuous exhibition at Nebulae (since 2025), at U Latina Campus Creativo (2025) and at Estudio Rambar, Las Catalinas (2026). Brisa was prepared as a candidate for CROMA, the CRCC Biennial (2026).
The works also transform the artist. Several pieces required David to learn something entirely new — a tool, a mechanism, a material — before they would let themselves be finished. Waiting, he says, is not lost time. It is loyalty to the piece.
Within Nebulae
A different room
in the same museum.
The sculptures and Nebulae grew at the same time, without knowing it — until everything aligned and the art found its place inside this architecture. Today the collection lives in continuous exhibition within the Nebulae universe in Barva de Heredia, where light, material and intention make each work feel part of the place.
Acquisition
Each work exists once.
The sculptures of Ojo de Arte are unique pieces — found once, interpreted once, built once. An acquisition begins with a conversation, not a checkout.
Private inquiries are answered personally, with provenance, technical documentation and delivery details for the work of your interest.
