Daldo Marte

Daldo has been shy eversince he was a little kid. He was diagnosed with a slight mental disability but his mother doesn’t talk much about his condition. She has always given him all her support and care, and as she was a teacher, she took care of his education at home.

During Daldo’s childhood and adolescence, he began to make his own toys. First, he used paper, then cardboard, and finally he found a unique way to create his toys. He uses the inner rubber tubes from old car tires to create a great diversity of little figures: animals, humanoids, spaceships and all kinds of creatures from his own fantasy world and from his preferred comics and cartoons. Some of them are just cut out with incredible precision with a pair of scissors directly into the rubber while others are put together using different independent pieces that he cut out separately to create a dimensional figure.

He also makes armors like the ones superheroes use. He makes them with recycled cartdboard and plastic. He wears it and walks through the streets of his neighborhood. His mother told, in those moments, that he’s more outgoing. It’s like his armor gives him enough protection to get out fearless. In one occasion, Daldo made a functional raft using recycled plastic bottles. He still keeps it and once used it to sail near the coast as if he were the captain of a boat.