Earth Stitches

This piece was developed for the Matéria.Design project, realized by Casa Seva and MateriaLAB Design. The Costura da Terra lamp is born from the desire to build within the transitory nature of an object’s life. Fragmented ceramic pieces, produced via 3D printing, are manually joined by copper wires, forming a composition of "stitches" that exalt overlaps and imperfections, creating a new life and a new object. The piece proposes a new constructive exploration, discovering a poetic and formal potency. Earth, as an expressive medium, proposes encounters between past and present, between technology and gesture, between code and memory. The layering of languages—from parametric modeling to copper stitching—opens space for new symbologies and formal possibilities. Superlimão’s participation in the exhibition reaffirms the firm’s quest for sensitive and material investigations, incorporating time, wear, and transformation as fundamental elements of design. Costura da Terra is, above all, a continuous gesture of affection, care, and reinvention; it is light shed upon what endured, stitching what was broken, and illuminating rebirth. Featuring a translucent, 3-D printed prismatic base, the piece aims to unite the universe of technology with the ancestral. A fruit of the research initiated in Linhas da Terra, it advances the work with ceramic fragments, transforming them into a luminous body that values both digital precision and the manual nature of the gesture.