Resumo:

The report presents the author’s work developed with reclaimed wood within the framework of plastic arts, mainly in the field of body ornamentation. The approach encompasses four aspects of her activities. In the first one, “collection”, ways, places of collection and types of gathered material are shown – including trunk sections, roots, branches, and leaves – as well as their physical conditions. The second one, “protest”, reveals the author’s activism related to the urban trees victimized by inadequate pruning, including painting injured parts of the trees with red ink, bonding them with white tulle ribbons and even fixing black plastic banners near them, with protest words such as “grief”. The third one tells about a volunteer work realized in the Caxiuanã National Forest, at Para State, comprising workshops for body adornments creation, with local communities’ young inhabitants. Finally, some samples of the vast and diverse author’s work on the mentioned sectors are shown.