Bird 3 (Metal Form Sculpture) Aluminium Animal Sculpture

This polished metal sculpture rises from its warm wooden base like a distilled gesture—part figure, part flame—where a hollowed aperture reads as both breath and wound, opening the form to space as an active, inhabiting presence. Light skates across the convex surfaces in liquid ribbons, turning the object into a moving landscape of reflections that shifts with every vantage, while the subtle twist suggests an inward torque, a body negotiating restraint and release. The dialogue between cool, mirror-bright metal and grounded timber stages a quiet tension: the ephemeral and the elemental, the performed sheen of the exterior against the steady grain of what holds it. In its ambiguity, the work becomes a small monument to transformation, inviting the viewer to complete the narrative through touchless proximity and changing light.