Sara Chyan

This sculptural work explores material, scale, and transformation through the use of bismuth.

When heated and cooled, bismuth forms crystalline structures with shifting, iridescent colours. Each surface is shaped by small changes in temperature and timing. The process can be directed, but never fully controlled, allowing the material to settle into its own form.

I am drawn to this balance between control and unpredictability. The work holds a moment of change, where the material is in the process of becoming something else.

Removed from function, the piece is experienced in space. It invites a slower way of looking, where attention moves across surface, colour, and form.

Bismuth becomes a way to explore transformation and material behaviour, capturing a state that feels both precise and unstable.