Cooperilha by Sandra Machado

Photographs Isabela Carrari
Model Anoã Vanelli

To create starting from materials you recycled belongs to my history. In the years that I passed in Amazônia, although it also worked with urban residues, ribbon cassette and copper wires, for example worked more with organic residues: seeds, fibres of palm trees, shells, fragments out of wooden and of minerals. In spite of to have supposed, since l' year 2000, the creation of Mode, art and it has the practice design like principal trade, the Ethnologist and the Environmental Teacher is in me, like a reflex, parts very operative. Guest by ONG Uno e Verso to lend a consultant of design for Cooperilha*, I am very happy capacity to join my work of creation with the environmental conservation. This one is a project with large and real possibilities of developing an environmental work sócial enormous importance, while producing returned as long as it helps to prevent that residues, I eat bottles PET and banners of vinila, will stop in the marshes and Atlantic Wood. The material result of the consultant is design 18 pieces of banner, exclusive for Cooperilha, including purses, layers of notebook, necessary and layers of rains, in addition to 4 models of chains of flowers of bottle PET. The parts controls and moulds belong to Cooperilha. Who will interest will give to banners and bottles, to buy parts or to make orders, can do it on the telephone. * Co-operative of recycling of urban waste of the community of Santa Cruz  dos Navegantes, Guarujá - SP - Brasil -  http://cooperilha.blogspot.com/ telephones (55 13) 3354 1210