Scrap Bird II, 2025

ByLuka  

The artist about the work: This “Scrap Bird II" was born from the need to represent elegance in the minimum. Its elongated silhouette, supported by extremely thin legs, expresses the apparent fragility of a being that nevertheless remains upright and firm on the wood. The elongated and pointed beak stretches towards the horizon, as if the bird were searching beyond the immediate, reminding us of the silent perseverance of animals that explore the world.

The body, composed of overlapping metal fragments, evokes rough plumage, hardened by rust. These are layers of accumulated time that today become wings, a recycled memory. Each piece of iron retains the imprint of its previous life, and from their union a new creature is born, wild and dignified.

With this sculpture, I wanted to show how from the broken and the rejected an unexpected balance can emerge, both vulnerable and resilient. A metallic bird that walks between the real and the imaginary, carrying within it the weight of the past and the lightness of a flight yet to come.

The artist on the collection: Byluka's "Scrap Birds" are born from scrap metal, from the constant recycling that takes place in nature. Iron extracted from the earth, melted, shaped 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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