The Small Trash Animals series came after the development of the most recognizable series, Big Trash Animals. Here, the goal was to reduce the scale of the construction of large animals and present them in a new habitat: the gallery.
The smaller scale allows the use of a greater variety of materials for the composition of these works. At its base, these works are mostly composed of textured wood, reusing doors, shutters, windows and benches of vacant buildings, which are then prepared to become the canvas on which compositions will be added using plastics, electronic material, fabrics, light metals, children's toys, hammocks, among others, all collected in the streets, empty spaces, garbage dumps or recycling centers. These assemblies are created in the studio using a paraphernalia of machines and workshop tools, which allow to join, drill, cut and bend.
Like the Big Trash Animals series, the Small Trash Animals series also ended up dividing into the Neutral, Half Half and Plastic Animals subseries.
The next step to the Neutral subseries was to partially expose the plastics and materials used for their composition. Thus, Half Half animals drop half of their camouflage: one side realistic and the other devoid of ink, in order to make the origin of the chosen raw material more easily apprehensible.
Through the rawness of the materials that make up the pieces, it is the shapes and contrasts that suggest the continuation of the image, represented in a more abstract way. The presence of plastics, metals and other raw materials endowed with textures and vivid colors, gives us back compositions in which the spectator's brain has to construct and unveil the part of the image that is not obvious at first reading.
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