Scrap Bird I

The artwork: Scrap Bird I

The artist about the work: In this “Scrap Bird” I wanted to capture the most instinctive essence of a bird that searches, digs, and bends towards the earth. The body, woven from a rusted mesh, reflects both fragility and the resilience of time; a reminder that what industry discards can once again take flight in another form. The thin, tense legs delicately support a structure that seems on the verge of collapsing, yet stands firm, just as nature does against the passage of time.

The beak and crest, forged from metallic fragments, define the rough, sharp, imperfect yet character-filled identity of the bird. This intentional imperfection is what brings the piece to life, for the bird does not seek to be realistic, but rather honest. There is no artifice here, only scars of fire and hammer, traces of a process as visceral as the animal instinct I strive to evoke.

Ultimately, this piece is a tribute to the humble and the discarded, which, once united, gain dignity and their own voice. A metallic song made of rust, memory, and rebirth.

The artist about the collection: The “Scrap Birds” of artist Byluka are born from scrap, from the constant recycling that occurs in nature. From iron extracted from the earth, smelted, manufactured, and discarded by industry, now transformed into art.

Such is my creative process: changing, unexpected, raw, and natural, guided by sensations that arise during the act of creation itself.

The marks of the hammer remain, the scars of welding, vestiges of origins and of the journey of the material towards a new form.

The raw material of my work, scrap, comes from the most diverse places, each piece carrying an anonymous story, laden with rust and silence.

The old sickle of a farmer, hand-forged by a blacksmith, a gear from a Galician sawmill, a nut that crossed the ocean until it was lost and I found it on the beach, an old broken plier gifted as a treasure by a neighbor, a tractor part, rounded over years of caressing the soil of Extremadura… Infinite stories that blossom in the “Scrap Birds”.

Material: scrap

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