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.
As a natural evolution of the sequence brought by the Neutral and Half Half pieces, Plastic animals lose their camouflage completely, to display only the natural colors of plastics and other discarded objects, used as raw material. This series of works is the debugging of the path that was guessed in the previous pieces. The raw material that makes up each animal is presented in a raw form, to make clear the effects of excessive consumption on the animal population that inhabits the Earth.
It seeks to expose, in the eyes of the spectator, without camouflage, each of the residues that make up the assemblies, to represent those that continue to be Bordalo’s favorite characters: animals. The focus is on form and composition in order to create colorful works, demonstrating the Bordalo's appreciation for the contradictory beauty of our waste, through games of contrast, texture, color and depth, created with parts of recognizable objects in our daily lives.
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