Sculpture by Francisco Duarte Coelho

Play Sea Stone (⧈ × ◇ ∇) is a minimalist intervention on an ancient material, inscribed not with language but with memory. The stone, found by the sea and shaped by time, bears four carefully hand-carved symbols universally recognizable to some, yet cryptic to others. These are the iconic PlayStation glyphs: ☐ (square), ✖ (cross), ◯ (circle), and △ (triangle) here reduced, omitted, or transformed into something more abstract: ⧈ × ◇ ∇. As the curves of the console fade from relevance, these marks may persist like a forgotten dialect waiting to be misread or mythologized. The stone stands as a relic of digital culture, washed ashore in a post-technological era. It invites viewers to interpret it as: A geometric alphabet, as old as runes. A lost interface language. A message encoded in nostalgia This work bridges play and permanence, childhood and artifact, surface and depth. What begins as a game becomes a riddle for the future.