Category: Crafts

  • Upcycle Workshop @Boom Festival

    As I launched Vestya Shop this year and one of it’s missions is to promote upcycling, I decided to prepare a clothing upcycle workshop to give in this Boom edition. During the construction, I collected wasted fabric pieces from this and previous years, then during the festival I invited the attendees to get creative using…

  • REturn, a Trashion Tribe photo essay

    Return re·​turn \ ri-ˈtərn  \  Verb 1. come or go back to a place or person. . go back to (a particular situation). . divert one’s attention back to. . reoccur after a period of absence. 2. give, put, or send (something) back to a place or person. . feel, say, or do (the same feeling,…

  • Trashion Tribe “The Elements Collection”

    Story Humanity wakes up from a shut down to find all its technology has collapsed. No more sucking the rivers or drilling the earth, no more Instagram or World Wide Web. No machines are working and all that is left is what has been previously produced, like the waste now floating in the oceans or…

  • Work @ Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival 2019

    I was delighted to join the Shangri-La Crew at Glastonbury Festival 2019. I love their motto of upcycling and reusing materials and it was impressive to see it all shaping up. Although it was my first time at the festival, I couldn’t be better received and made to feel at home. I spend a couple…

  • La Fumisterie @ Waking Life 2018

    Waking Life is a festival set around a small lake in Crato, Portugal. For over 3 weeks I helped set up the Forest Stage with La Fumisterie. Work included a bit of welding, some light creations and a lot of fabric gluing!   After meeting La Fumisterie and their amazing metal artwork in my hometown in…

  • Puppet Making Workshops

    Partículas Elementares and their puppet show “O Nabo Gigante” went on a journey to São Miguel, Açores, and I was invited to join them with 3 puppet-making workshops. The first sessions happened in Água de Pau school and the last at the Tomaz Borba Vieira Municipal Library. Events photos by Câmara Municipal de Lagoa – Açores.

  • Na Kalha 2018

    Na Kalha, is a street music festival in Ovar, Portugal. I helped create and set the performance spaces with stenciled boxes, conceived hanging installations around the town, painted a wall and helped during the event assisting the participating artists.    

  • REcreate @ Lisbon Busking Festival

    It has been a while since I took the REcreate workshops to the streets and it was really special to do it in one of my home towns, Lisbon. Integrated in the first ever Lisbon Busking Festival it was a space to play and learn about reusing materials for (he)art sake. I was overwhelmed by the amount of children…

  • Photography Collages

    Illustrations made from cut outs and collages of photography I had taken and printed between 1996 – 2003. Natural landscapes Surreal landscapes Landscapes in black & white Flowers on chinese sticks Tangrams & puzzles

  • Plarn crochet crafts

    Crochet crafts made with plarn [a yarn made by cutting plastic bags into a string]. Laptop bag   Pillow filled with colorful plastic bits that are not used for weaving.   Play ball filled with plastic bits Pocket money necklace bag   Mobile phone pockets and purses   Toy See more here.