Architecture, yoga, sound art & hospitality in Heredia, Costa Rica
Founding piece · 05
When moonlight passes through ice,
the sky draws a circle.
The concept
“An ephemeral phenomenon,
made permanent.”
01 — The phenomenon
On certain nights, a ring of light surrounds the moon. It happens when moonlight crosses tiny ice crystals suspended in high clouds — each one a prism, refracting the glow into a perfect circle.
It awakens serenity, mystery and a silent kind of beauty. It lasts a moment, and it cannot be kept. Halo was born from the wish to keep it anyway.
02 — The form
The piece of driftwood was found in April 2024, its cavities and folds shaped by water and time. In the composition it becomes the clouds — the atmosphere that embraces the moon and sustains its halo.
Nothing about its silhouette was altered. The sky it holds was already there; it only needed to be seen.
03 — The interpretation
The ice crystals that make the halo possible are evoked in the piece by incorporated amethyst stones — small geodes of violet light hidden in the wood's cavities.
They are not ornament. They are the physical translation of the atmosphere: the exact part of the sky that turns light into a circle.
04 — The territory
The sand at the base was collected on the same beach where the piece was found. It is not a finish — it is memory. The territory does not merely describe the work's origin; it is physically part of it.
Halo unites light, nature and memory, and celebrates the harmony of those fleeting phenomena that are naturally beautiful.
05 — The light
Halo has been recorded in different atmospheres of light — a warm moon inside a golden ring, and a violet reading where the amethysts seem to tint the whole sky of the piece.
06 — Gallery
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07 — The collection
From this founding piece, a family was born: Halo-V, Halo-F, Halo-E and Halo-Y — each a new reading of the same phenomenon. In Halo-F, an entire ring of amethysts evokes the ice: a majestic presence, like a throne where the moon is the queen and the halo her crown.
08 — Technical record
Dimensions and full documentation available upon inquiry.
Acquisition
Halo exists once. Its acquisition begins with a private conversation.
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