Spring Collage

In these pieces, I use buttons as “paint”, using its shapes, colors and texture. This one is representing the hills of countryside Portugal, during sunny spring days. These tiny objects captured my attention from an early age, abundant in grandmother small village house. Each isolated button appears to have only one functional purpose. Together by hundreds, they grow larger, become threedimensional, subvert their initial function, confusing the senses and forcing us to create more mechanisms of perception. I reuse wood and buttons, less noble and unusual materials, mostly discarded by the industry as a by-product, labeled as “non-compliant”, “defective” and “discontinued”, thus contributing, on a tiny scale, to the urgent need of activating a more circular economy.