Scrap Bird I, 2025

ByLuka  

The artist on the work: In this “Scrap Bird," I wanted to capture the most instinctive essence of a bird that searches, scratches, and leans toward the earth. The body, woven from rusty latticework, reflects both the fragility and resistance of time; a reminder that what industry discards can rise again in another form. The thin, outstretched legs delicately support a structure that seems ready to collapse, but remains firm, like nature facing the passing of the years.

The beak and crest, forged from metal fragments, mark the bird's identity: rough, sharp, imperfect, but full of character. This sought-after imperfection is what gives life to the work, for the bird does not seek to be realistic, but sincere. Here, there is no artifice, only scars of fire and hammer, traces of a process as visceral as the animal instinct I am trying to evoke.

Ultimately, this piece is a tribute to the humble and the rejected, who, by uniting, acquire dignity and a voice of their own. A metallic song made of rust, memory, and rebirth.

The artist on the collection: Byluka's "Scrap Birds" are born from scrap metal, from the constant recycling that occurs in nature. Iron extracted from the earth, melted down, manufactured and then discarded by industry, now transformed into art.

This is my creative process: changing, unpredictable, raw and natural, guided by the sensations that emerge during the very act of creation.

What remains are the hammer marks, the welding scar, vestiges of the origins and the journey of the material towards a new form.

The raw material for my work, scrap metal, comes from very diverse places, each piece carrying an anonymous story, laden with rust and silence.

A gardener's old sickle, hand-forged by a blacksmith, a gear from a Galician sawmill, a nut that crossed the ocean before getting lost and that I found on the beach, an old broken pair of pliers, given as a treasure by a neighbor, a tractor part, rounded by years of caressing the land of Extremadura... Endless stories that flourish in the "Scrap Birds".

Material: scrap metal

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