Community Project
SILLAS CONCEPTUALES / MURAL – Cooperativa “La flor del Mangar” en Zapotalito
Mohamad worked with the ladies of the group “Women fishermen of Zapotalito, the Mangrove Flower.”The workshop’s main idea was to make chairs with unique designs that portray their personal history or some aspect that characterized their way of life. During the first session, the resident talked about his work and how it is related to the creation of chairs. Different designs of chairs were shown to help them exploit their creativity when designing their own. The next stage was the design of each chair, which contained a drawing of what the elaborated product would be like, accompanied by a description of the furniture in question, highlighting the personal features that each wanted to capture. At the same time, they asked the resident to prepare a mural together with them to decorate their restaurant and design ideas were discussed.
The following sessions were dedicated to elaborating, preparing, and assembling the chairs, using recycled and waste items that could be found in the community, to teach them how to make the most of each element and not to buy any material. Trunks, palms, huacales, mangrove roots, and coconuts were used to make the chairs. The mural was painted with the help of Koba de Meutter, Keke Vilabelda, and Sebastián Hoffman. The mural depicts a woman who descends from the sky towards the Zapotalito lagoon; her hair resembles the tentacles of a squid, the bottom is full of animals that the women of the collective usually catch and at the top are the two large stars that govern the activities of fishing and work.
Mohamad worked with the ladies of the group “Women fishermen of Zapotalito, the Mangrove Flower.”The workshop’s main idea was to make chairs with unique designs that portray their personal history or some aspect that characterized their way of life. During the first session, the resident talked about his work and how it is related to the creation of chairs. Different designs of chairs were shown to help them exploit their creativity when designing their own. The next stage was the design of each chair, which contained a drawing of what the elaborated product would be like, accompanied by a description of the furniture in question, highlighting the personal features that each wanted to capture. At the same time, they asked the resident to prepare a mural together with them to decorate their restaurant and design ideas were discussed.
The following sessions were dedicated to elaborating, preparing, and assembling the chairs, using recycled and waste items that could be found in the community, to teach them how to make the most of each element and not to buy any material. Trunks, palms, huacales, mangrove roots, and coconuts were used to make the chairs. The mural was painted with the help of Koba de Meutter, Keke Vilabelda, and Sebastián Hoffman. The mural depicts a woman who descends from the sky towards the Zapotalito lagoon; her hair resembles the tentacles of a squid, the bottom is full of animals that the women of the collective usually catch and at the top are the two large stars that govern the activities of fishing and work.
