Scrap Bird IV

The artwork: Scrap Bird IV

The artist about the work: “Scrap Bird IV” is the most dynamic of this series, a bird that seems about to leap or start running. Its body, built with open and lightened pieces, reveals gaps and voids as an essential part of the composition. Instead of hiding absences, here I show them as part of life itself: spaces that give shape, that allow breathing.

The long, sharp beak points decisively, while the improvised crest suggests energy and movement. The legs, fragile yet tense, hold the body with an air of lightness, as if it weighed no more than a shadow. On its back, metallic fragments reminiscent of wings open outward, hinting at a restrained flight.

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

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

Material: scrap

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