hello good afternoon thank you for being
here a few years ago I was wondering
how would it be to enter a prison in
I was really wondering how it would be
enter to work in a jail
I am a licensed plastic artist
designer art and I have a brand of
clothes with my name
a few years ago he also developed
social projects with women who
they are related to the design
I work with women different from me
different in their cultures in their
journeys in their life experiences
over time I realized that
working with people involves putting me in
a place of horizontality with the other
what is a permanent learning to put on
agree to exchange ideas
rethink methods styles likes
aesthetics is a challenge that for me
as a designer
I propose an instance of learning
permanent
a few years ago he coordinated the project
com and that is a collective of women
weavers that rescued the technique of
Juan basketry of the towns
originating and we made it with
materials rescued from the garbage as
fabrics sobas and cables of 2014
coordinated together with florencia sanchez and
jimena gal and the project the entanglement that
It’s a textile experiences workshop
inside the criminal number 5 of the rosary
this project belongs to the women’s NGO
Behind bars
Some 25 women participate in this project
inside the prison he delivers the jail
implies for me an experience
absolutely different from my life
everyday
I believe that
is in a way to stop being one for
For a while, leave our belongings
deliver the document to sign a book
of records to face the requisitions of all
the materials that we enter and from our
clothes
We went through three controls where
employees of the penitentiary service
check our things take our
names and count all the materials
that we entered three times we got to
ground floor that is entered by a patio
with very little lattice light and I give full of
hanging clothes the children run around
that patio trying the first steps
the criminal number 5 of the rosary houses
about 45 women and seven younger children
of four years we arrived at the dining room and
the girls arrange the tables and the
banks to start working
we take out our materials and melissa
bring your carpets that you wove during
the week with fabrics and networks
she is also in charge of
distribute the material that we
We take and teach you how to weave
other girls
this daily work for two
years allowed us to establish with them
a relationship of trust
we take our materials we look at the
designs
we chatted we took mate we established a
daily relationship of trust in the
that they begin to discover themselves
same
they begin to value some things that
can some embroider embroider rugs
embroider flowers embroider names and embroider
names of your loved ones
sometimes I think it ‘s magic
and something beautiful can come out of there
in Tangle products come out to
the sale thanks to the work of silvia
Silvia served her sentence and left in
freedom last year and it’s from
last year he started selling and
attend the fair stand at the end of
week
she sells the products that are manufactured
inside the tangle dew board carpets
in floor rags is to approach flowers and
mandalas in stitch chain and cross stitch and
then decorate with sequins
colors
dew is milton’s mom who has eleven
months and is learning to walk
dew tells me that milton had a fever
all night
these women are in state
vulnerable
overcrowding , lack of fresh air
lack of natural light and food
deficient are the instances that
they live day by day
well inside these women are
vulnerable but are vulnerable from
before entering prison
they are vulnerable since before
have committed the crime
they have been deprived of their rights
and opportunities since they were born in their
most did not finish high school
almost none has a stable family and
none had a job inside the
system that dignifies them they are
young and poor women bear the
instance of being imprisoned for those is
a very difficult situation
they lose their individuality they lose their
opportunity to decide what they eat when
eat when they go to the doctor when they see
his family
the proposal of the entanglement
It is a small collective space where
they can feel that they can trust
In themselves
start thinking about the possibility of a
go away from the crime
some years ago I was wondering how
would be to enter to work in a jail
at this moment I know that it is an instance
of contradiction and stake out
permanent
many many times I wonder what
water already inside but I know also that your
place possible t is a place where I
I can think that these women have
an opportunity is a small one
small space make it possible for you to
many freedoms
thanks more
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