Look at these gorgeous flip flops.
Handmade by Lenora Mendoza, the award-winning artist from Venezuela, who runs Engage Green, makers of products crafted from recyled and sustainabe materials and production processes that prevent unnecessary harm to the planet. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
I bought these at the Gowanus Goes Green Festival on Sunday on Carroll Street. Lenora told me that she isn’t making them anymore; they take too long to make.
I paid $28. for them and I thought that was a fair price for a wearable work of art. Actually, I don’t know whether I’ll wear them or hang them on a wall.
The flowers are made out of fabric and buttons. I’m not sure what the sole is made of but probably one of the recycled materials she uses.