Buscando la luz 1997

Eduardo Chillida's sculpture, "Buscando la luz" looks like it was built from giant slabs of earth, standing tall in an urban park. The rust-colored metal is so inviting, so weathered. It evokes a sense of ancient, elemental forces at play. I bet Chillida was thinking about how we connect with our environment when he created this artwork. I can imagine him wrestling with the material, feeling its weight, and coaxing it into these powerful, totemic forms. I wonder if he considered it a modern henge? See how the surfaces are not perfectly smooth but textured? This gives the metal a tactile quality, as if they were shaped by hand. Those curves! Notice how they catch the light, creating shadows that shift with the sun's movement. Like standing stones, the sculpture has a presence, a weightiness, that draws us in. It seems like Chillida wanted to create a space where we could pause, reflect, and feel the earth beneath our feet.