Sculpture by Francisco Duarte Coelho

This piece is an engraved stone bearing what appears to be a cryptic star map an arrangement of arrows, symbols, and a single five-pointed star, etched by hand onto a raw piece of limestone. The work deliberately mimics ancient navigation tablets, planetary alignment diagrams, or messages encoded for unknown recipients. Its origin is terrestrial, but its meaning aspires beyond Earth. Is this a relic from a forgotten civilization or a prophecy yet to be fulfilled? This fragment might be read as, a symbolic message of direction, fate, or escape, a speculative remnant of space-age mythmaking, an artifact of unknown function, ripe for misinterpretation By removing any clear narrative or legend, the artist invites viewers to decode the inscription as one would ancient glyphs, lost languages, or alien contact. In the absence of a key, the symbols float between data and dream. The piece belongs to a growing lexicon of contemporary stoneworks—remnants of a digital-obsessed culture fossilized into material permanence.