Artist in Residency at Rasquache
San Francisco Cuapan, Puebla, Mexico
June 2017
I went to San Francisco Cuapan with ideas that were transformed when arriving there.
I was stricken by the amount of trash disposed to the side of the nearest mountain. So I collected glass bottles, washed and used them for two workshops I taught to children at the middle school of the village. It was an amazing experience, they, for the first time ever, painted. They painted on the recycled bottles as a way to learn that sometimes what we believe is trash can be transformed into something that can be reused. We turned them into flower vases.
Photos: Lourdes Jimenez