THUNDER BIRD is both a named mount and a state of self-awakening.
The work originates from the artist’s experience of rebirth after a damaging relationship. Composed of charred black wood, stainless steel, and mixed media, it takes on a fragmented yet outward-expanding structure, symbolizing a will that continues to vibrate, gather, and reshape itself amid emotional restraint and inner darkness. The subtle metallic glimmer within the work passes through the shadows like lightning, pointing toward the clarity and strength that gradually emerge from pain.

The artist deliberately renders the form incomplete, even fractured—because rebirth is never clean. It is not a mystical, flawless “rising from the ashes,” but something mixed with the smell of burning, black smoke, unhealed wounds, and a stubborn vitality.

What this work presents is not a triumphant kind of rebirth, but the process of slowly standing up from the ashes: an awakening marked by scars, yet firmly determined never to turn back. After the end of an imbalanced relationship, when attachment collapses, the inner self begins to reorganize. The fractured structure no longer points to destruction, but to becoming—like lightning cutting through darkness, establishing a new direction and order.
It is not a symbol of flight, but the threshold just before taking off.
A force that still bears its scars, yet has already completed its turn.
What THUNDER BIRD carries is not an escape from the past,
but a return to the self.