Community Project
Mejoramiento técnico al diseño de las trampas de jaiba – Fundación Casa Wabi
The project of the artist James Capper consisted in supporting the women fish workers with new designs of traps to facilitate the fishing. To achieve this, a meeting was held with the women fish workers of the Zapotalito in its restaurant called “la Flor del manglar”, there they talked with the women, they observed the existing traps that are of two forms: cylindrical and rectangular, the women explained how they use the traps to fish crabs in the bottom of the lagoon called “La Pastoría,” which is part of the lagoon system “Lagunas de Chacahua.”
Later, James realized a series of drawings alluding to the traps and the fishing gear measures; he collaborated with an artisan also called “balconero” so that he would elaborate 20 traps, 10 of cylindrical form, and 10 in rectangular form. Fortunately, women had several meters of a special mesh in which the traps of metal structure are lined up, which permitted the object to be finished so that they could be used to catch the seafood. This project also helped in a social part, women only had 2 traps, and now they will have 20 more.
The project of the artist James Capper consisted in supporting the women fish workers with new designs of traps to facilitate the fishing. To achieve this, a meeting was held with the women fish workers of the Zapotalito in its restaurant called “la Flor del manglar”, there they talked with the women, they observed the existing traps that are of two forms: cylindrical and rectangular, the women explained how they use the traps to fish crabs in the bottom of the lagoon called “La Pastoría,” which is part of the lagoon system “Lagunas de Chacahua.”
Later, James realized a series of drawings alluding to the traps and the fishing gear measures; he collaborated with an artisan also called “balconero” so that he would elaborate 20 traps, 10 of cylindrical form, and 10 in rectangular form. Fortunately, women had several meters of a special mesh in which the traps of metal structure are lined up, which permitted the object to be finished so that they could be used to catch the seafood. This project also helped in a social part, women only had 2 traps, and now they will have 20 more.
