Scrap Bird IV, 2025

ByLuka  

The artist on the work: “Scrap Bird IV" is the most dynamic of this series, a bird that seems about to leap or soar. Its body, constructed of open and lightened pieces, reveals the voids as an essential part of the composition. Instead of hiding the absences, I show them here as an integral part of life: spaces that give shape, that allow one to breathe.

The long, pointed beak points decisively, while the improvised crest suggests energy and movement. The legs, fragile but taut, support the body with an impression of lightness, as if it weighed no more than a shadow. On the back, metallic fragments reminiscent of wings open outward, insinuating a contained flight.

With this work, I wanted to capture the moment before the action: that moment when everything is about to happen. A metallic bird that is more gesture than stillness, more momentum than rest, and that reflects how, even in the rejected, the possibility of movement and freedom always beats.

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 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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