Scrap Bird II

The artwork: Scrap Bird II

The artist about the work: This “Scrap Bird II” arises from the need to represent elegance in the minimal. Its elongated figure, sustained on the thinnest legs, conveys the apparent fragility of a being that, nevertheless, remains upright and firm on the wood. The extended, sharp beak points to the horizon, as if the bird were searching beyond the immediate, reminding us of the silent perseverance of animals exploring the world.

The body, made of overlapping metal fragments, recalls a feathering roughened and hardened by rust. These are layers of accumulated time that now turn into wings, into recycled memory. Each piece of iron retains the imprint of its former life, and in their union a new, wild and dignified creature is born.

With this sculpture I wanted to reflect how, from the broken and discarded, an unexpected balance can emerge—at once vulnerable and resilient. A metallic bird that walks between the real and the imagined, carrying with it the weight of the past and the lightness of a flight yet to begin.

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 scar 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 holding 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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