Marcela Luna

Edition Three Feature 
Words by: Nekane Jiménez Fernández 
Location: Villabuena del Puente, Zamora, Spain 
Photo Credit: ©Celia Iglesias @margotroesset 

I am Nekane and I am a visual artist. The main part of my artwork involves handcrafting with paper, which is for me the essence of my art, just as paint is for a painter. For the last two years I have been keeping my waste paper from my work, because one day I realised that I was wasting so much and decided to do something with these leftovers. 

In this way, Marcela Luna was born. This new brand makes the perfect harmony with the creative art that I sell under the name Neka. I would like to improve my designs and make Marcela Luna bigger because I feel it is something that I need to do and that makes my art and me complete. 

Essentially, I recycle paper with my new brand Marcela Luna. The waste paper from my art is transformed into new art or used, as paper pulp, to make some objects like vases, bowls and pots. I have three boxes of papers for recycling: one box for black paper, another for white paper and the last for all of the other colours, mainly reds and blues. I use these last ones for dyeing white paper, though I usually make colours with natural pigments – what I find in nature and in the countryside. I dye with wine, rose petals and onion skins. I have here, in this new environment, a lot of things that I didn’t have in the city where I lived before coming here. I make the most of all the resources that I now have living in the middle of the countryside. 

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