Since 2018, we have regularly donated our unusable leather scraps for leather goods to the MGEN Mental Health Facility in Toulouse.
This is an adult day psychiatric hospital that implements, among other therapeutic methods, art therapy.
Previously sorted by color then cut by caregivers, these scraps are used in a mediated therapy workshop inspired by mosaic or stained glass: the "Créa-Cuir" workshop.
Patients are then asked to completely fill a wooden support of approximately 15x15cm, leaving no empty areas, in order to make the best use of the pre-cut pieces as they are. It is important to take the time to find the right piece.
Patients create their mosaics and progress at their own pace. Here are some examples of what has been achieved during these workshops:
The most audacious even went so far as to create sculptures.
We were amazed by their production: the color combinations, the patterns, the rhythm... We love everything!
And we had never imagined that such wonders could emerge from such disparate pieces, at the very end of the recycling chain, that is, after we cut our patterns from upcycled leather skins, then our cards from the scraps of those skins, then our key rings from the scraps of those scraps...
Further proof, if any were needed, that for us, nothing is lost, everything is transformed.
