In the world of art, there are works that can be seen and those that can be felt. The horse sculpture made of driftwood, the work of artist Abdul Ghofur, belongs to those others – those who stop us for a moment and make us think about the connection between nature, time and man.
At first glance, it is an elegant horse, detailed and almost alive. But when you look closer, each piece of wood reveals its own path – shaped by the sea, time and chance. The artist did not use perfect materials, but what nature rejected and offered again – debris. It was from these imperfections that the harmony of form was created.
Ghofur’s sculpture does not only depict an animal. It shows the relationship. Between the artist and nature. Between raw material and idea. Between the past that wood carries and the present that art creates. Such works remind us that aesthetics does not lie in perfection, but in the story that the material brings with it.
This work is not static – it calls for reflection. About how much we can create when, instead of controlling nature, we collaborate with it. Abdul Ghofur not only shaped a horse, but he shaped a bridge between two worlds – the raw and the sensitive, the natural and the human.