Wharda

Wharda emerges from a study of grief and phenomenology, materialized through reclaimed mild steel. The sculpture starts as a grounded, vertical spine reminiscent of a chain, which then sprawls upward and outward into complex, branching forms. This movement mirrors the duality of growth and exhaustion, capturing the tension between heaviness and renewal. Every steel element is gathered and shaped by hand, retaining the residue and scars of its industrial history rather than disguising them. This act of reassembly serves as a form of remembering, proposing a “post-natural” perspective where nature is viewed as hybrid and entangled with human manufacturing. The work engages in a dialogue between what is made and what remains, suggesting that the industrial and the natural now coexist. Through its structural evolution from a rigid anchor to an expanding canopy, Warda represents a fragile congruence between ruin and regeneration, inviting viewers to contemplate the transformation of matter and memory.