"Perched" by Nur Iffah Sa adon

While the swift and powerful wings of a bird enable it to soar in the sky, it is their slight understated yet elegant feet that keep it perched steady on a tree branch on the earth's ground. This polarity of rootedness and stability in the glory of the birds flight is explored through the contrast of bulk at the top of the structures supported by the nimbleness of the delicate and fragile supporting legs. The bird is born with the natural ability to defy the one thing that had always been man's obstacle to flight: gravity. To convey this lightness of the bird i the midst of a very solid world, foam was chosen. The kinesis of the form conveys weight, but the reality of foam is that it is light. That some parts are smooth, light o the touch, yet others raw in their natural not only adds texture, but it is a synthetic reflection of the bird's soft feathers in cohort with the rough scales of its feet. Thus foam allows duality of lightness/heaviness and smoothness/friction to exist in the same space. The negative spaces cast shadows, the composition is mysterious yet playful at the same time, always drawing the eyes closer, wandering into the spaces dwelling within.