Bag-a-mask

Bag-a-mask is an artistic work that works like a beach bag made with the rubbers of 230 masks.

You just need to collect a lot of masks to cut their rubber bands and save them as you will need quite a few, but this way you help the environment.

Masks worn since the beginning of the pandemic have already begun to flood the streets and oceans. Their rubber bands, entangled in the legs of seagulls or suffocating turtles are examples of danger to birds and marine animals.

Bag-a-mask part of the individual objective of cutting the rubber bands of the masks before throwing them away to raise awareness among others,
and ends, in a totally reused work that contributes to the preservation of the environment and that, shows the residual impact of masks on it, in addition to showing an example of action, which can be carried individually or collectively, for the reuse and recycling of masks.

A performance of mask collection, both in your close environment and in the environment.
As in the case of the 230 masks that make up the work, reused from home and from the beach. Hence the message: the mask returned to the beach, in the form of a bag.

The bag has been made by hand using the Macrame technique.

You can do it yourself since it is very easy to do and you only need to make many simple knots.

Its difficulty lies in the discontinuity of the rope, due to the short length of a rubber mask, and the high number of knots required. Despite this, various types of knots and braids have been made that have shaped the bag.

In order for the rubber bands to adopt the shape of a bag, it was tied around various objects with the desired shape.

Both surgical masks and FFP2 rubbers have been used, the latter for the strongest bonds. The resistance and elasticity of these rubbers are surprising, which in turn demonstrates their low biodegradability.

The result is a work of awareness and impact, reflecting a seafoam net for collecting masks, but also proving to be functional. The rubber bands make the perfect material for a light, elastic, resistant, and sand proof bag.

Now it's your turn, recycle the mask rubber bands as you like! You can create your own face mask bag like mine or be inspired by this initiative to give a new life to face masks and create something unique to help the environment.