Scrap Bird V

The artwork: Scrap Bird V

The artist about the work: “Scrap Bird V” is the embodiment of movement in its purest form. Its body, leaning forward with wings extended, conveys the urgency of a run, the energy contained in every step. It is not a bird that waits; it is a bird that advances, that breaks stillness and carves its way through rust and air.

The torso, made of curved and colorful fragments marked by rust, retains an echo of protection, as if the metal still remembered its past life as a container or tool. Now, instead, it beats like the chest of an animal that breathes and launches itself without fear. The elongated, tense neck ends in a head full of expressiveness: alert metallic eyes, a firm, defiant beak.

The legs, robust and steady, seem caught mid-stride, ready to thrust forward. With this piece I sought to embody determination. “Scrap Bird V” is not just a sculpture: it is a gesture of resistance and momentum, a reminder that even the discarded can be transformed into strength and movement. It is, in essence, a rusted song to vitality that never fades.

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 toward 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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