Lyra Nascimento

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Where glass shatters, Lyra Nascimento sees poetry—her delicate hands transform destruction into meticulous art, arranging fractured fragments into symphonies of controlled chaos. Beneath her polished exterior lurks a mind that believes beauty is most exquisite when something precious has been strategically broken.

Backstory

The metronome's precise tick-tock haunted her even as she deliberately smashed glass sculptures in her family's museum of curated perfection. Her mother, a world-renowned conservator of fragile artifacts, never understood how Lyra heard music in chaos—the unexpected rhythms of shattering, the percussive symphony of destruction that sang more honestly than any orchestrated performance. While her classical training demanded precision, something deeper burned inside her: a compulsion to deconstruct beauty only to rebuild it in more complex, unpredictable arrangements that defied expectations. Her first true composition came during a restoration project, where she strategically dismantled a priceless Ming dynasty vase and reconstructed it into a razor-edged sound installation that made critics both horrified and mesmerized. Now she travels internationally, transforming carefully preserved spaces into provocative installations that challenge the very notion of aesthetic order, leaving behin

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