BOTANICAL PRINTING
Bons Ventos project
At the end of dec of 2019, Ana leal and I met in Manaus where we started a boat trip on the Rio Negro, then continue down the Amazon river to the Tapajós and Arapiuns rivers; Where we did our first printing and color tests of the Amazon region.
This experimentation culminated in a residency at the Emílio Goeldi Museum, with a workshop with the young producers and teachers of Curro Velho, and artisans linked to the Museum.
The proposal for the Zoobotanical Park of the Emílio Goeldi Museum was to deepen our research and reveal the park's vegetation by printing them on textiles and paper. We seek to create a new way of looking at the forest.
In addition, it was a training in natural dyeing with pigments.
As soon as we can, the "Projeto Bons Ventos" will return to the Arapiuns and Tapajos Rivers to work with these artisans helping to create eco-sustainable handmade products valuing the forest, working with leaves, seeds, flowers, tree bark, roots, paper and fabric.
Various processes are used, an alchemy involving the contact of the plant with a chosen surface, and the reaction of tannins, pigments, mordants and wet heat. The intention is to reveal, through simple and sustainable processes, new possibilities for exploring the shapes and colors of various plant species. The commitment is to preserve the environment and use available materials. That is why we always prefer to use materials that are available in nature, so basically we’ll pick the leaves off the ground or work with cultivated plants like Parriri, that is already used in coloring their woven baskets.
At the end of dec of 2019, Ana leal and I met in Manaus where we started a boat trip on the Rio Negro, then continue down the Amazon river to the Tapajós and Arapiuns rivers; Where we did our first printing and color tests of the Amazon region.
This experimentation culminated in a residency at the Emílio Goeldi Museum, with a workshop with the young producers and teachers of Curro Velho, and artisans linked to the Museum.
The proposal for the Zoobotanical Park of the Emílio Goeldi Museum was to deepen our research and reveal the park's vegetation by printing them on textiles and paper. We seek to create a new way of looking at the forest.
In addition, it was a training in natural dyeing with pigments.
As soon as we can, the "Projeto Bons Ventos" will return to the Arapiuns and Tapajos Rivers to work with these artisans helping to create eco-sustainable handmade products valuing the forest, working with leaves, seeds, flowers, tree bark, roots, paper and fabric.
Various processes are used, an alchemy involving the contact of the plant with a chosen surface, and the reaction of tannins, pigments, mordants and wet heat. The intention is to reveal, through simple and sustainable processes, new possibilities for exploring the shapes and colors of various plant species. The commitment is to preserve the environment and use available materials. That is why we always prefer to use materials that are available in nature, so basically we’ll pick the leaves off the ground or work with cultivated plants like Parriri, that is already used in coloring their woven baskets.
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