Scrap Bird III

The artwork: Scrap Bird III

The artist about the work: “Scrap Bird III” is perhaps the most frontal and forceful of this series. Its body is composed of an assembly of hard pieces, plates, and metal fragments that overlap like feathers, forming a shell that resembles more an armor than a light plumage. Yet it is in this contradiction that its strength lies: a bird that does not need to fly to assert itself, standing firm with the memory of the iron that composes it.

The exaggeratedly elongated beak symbolizes tireless searching, a gesture of infinite curiosity that always points toward the unknown. The legs, thin but determined, anchor the figure to the wood like roots, while the rest of the body seems ready to leap forward.

In this work I wanted to reflect the tension between heavy and light, vulnerable and indestructible. The result is a metallic bird that embodies the paradox of recycling: what was once a tool, a gear, or waste now transforms into a new being, full of its own life and a presence impossible to ignore.

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 the 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 by years of caressing the soil of Extremadura… Infinite stories that flourish in the “Scrap Birds”.

Material: scrap

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