Mountain Of Ribs (Scrap Metal Figurines)

Forged from spare metal into wiry, skeletal figures, the sculpture stages a small theater of labor and witness: one character bends into the mechanics of extraction while the other stands upright, crowned by a vessel, as if bearing the weight of necessity with stoic humor. The open latticework creates a drawing in space, letting light slip through the bodies so absence becomes as expressive as form, and the polished highlights flare like brief flashes of dignity amid industrial austerity. Domestic objects—a clay pot, a tin-like container—interrupt the blackened framework, suggesting how survival is assembled from whatever is at hand, and how everyday rituals persist inside harsh infrastructures. The piece reads as an ode to resourcefulness, where the improvised anatomy of wire and scrap transforms hardship into a quietly resilient iconography.