{"id":87476,"date":"2012-04-26T00:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87476\/painting-worlds-largest-landfill\/"},"modified":"2012-04-26T00:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:41:43","slug":"painting-worlds-largest-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87476\/painting-worlds-largest-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"PAINTING THE WORLDS LARGEST LANDFILL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Brazil Jardim Gramacho is the biggest landfill in the world.A virtual wasteland.
\nI have just finished watching the movie,”WASTELAND”,a documentary about those who make art with it,those who live in it,and those who live by it.Artists,and garbage pickers,the well off,and the very,very poorest amongst us my friends.
\nThe slums,the people,the children and all that stinking garbage……mountains upon mountains of garbage and filth,but recyclables as well.
\nFor all our understanding,all our trying to understand how these people are forced to live,do we….do we really ?
\nIn all honesty how could we even begin to understand,much less say that we ultimately do ?
\nThat simply is not plausible my friends as it is so unlike the lives we have lived,and do now live that to even try to imagine living in such a deplorable state would send us reeling back to the safety of our civilized world faster than you can say…
\nWhat is the real difference between you and the people who are forced to pick garbage for a living,if you can call this a way to make a living at all my friends.No this way to make a living is merely survival,barely eking out your life,and yet this is what they must do….everyday…of every week…of every month…of every year….how can we possibly say we understand this my friends….?
\nWhat is the difference between them and you…..really….?
\nVik Muniz is a very well known artist.
\nAnd then there is the man who has been a garbage picker for 26 years who says he is proud to be a garbage picker,who is the vice president of the association of pickers of Jardim Gramacho who represents 2,500 garbage pickers at the landfill that carries this distinction with pride.He is proud that what he does,that what he contributes to this effort does not pollute or destroy the environment anymore than we already do….
\nHe states that one can is of great importance…..one can….?
\nYes one can.Ask yourself if the average American would carry as much pride having picked garbage for the past 26 years my friends….ask yourself if even you can see the real importance of that one can ?<\/p>\n

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I think we can only understand living this way from far,far away because to be right up in it’s face everyday it would become us so instantly that we would see the totality of it and it would chew up our minds until we could not comprehend it any longer…until we would run back to our civilized world,our civilized society slightly bent but not fully broken….simply because we can….my friends.
\nThat does not make us Americans all bad people either my friends,no that just makes us as human as the people in this film.
\nHowever it does give us pause to think,thank and pray for those less fortunate than we.
\nIf you have a chance to see this film I would highly suggest you do my friends because it is a testament to the people it portrays and moreover a absolutely stark and powerful look into the power of the human spirit.<\/p>\n

WASTELAND<\/p>\n

Ever wondered what the world\u2019s biggest garbage dump looked like? Now you can find out; check out the documentary \u201cWaste Land\u201d which takes place at the Jardim Gramacho dump in the outskirts of Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Not only will you get a look at the dump itself, but you can also get a glimpse into the lives of the workers. These Brazilian garbage diggers, otherwise known as catadores, go through the trash of the 321 acre open air dump to obtain the recyclable materials to sell. Vik Muniz, renowned artist who currently resides in New York City and native to Brazil, decided to go to the outskirts of Rio de Janiero to document the lives of these catadores. Muniz\u2019s idea was to construct images made out of the trash that these catadores were sifting through. Muniz said in a New York Times article, \u201cWhat I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the big deal about Muniz? You may think this is just another artist\u2019s attempt to tug at your heartstrings so you’ll buy their art. But it\u2019s different for Muniz; all of the money that he makes from selling these pieces of art goes directly back to the catadores that he documented so closely. Muniz himself grew up very poor, so now he feels it is his time to give back, especially to the people of Brazil. One hundred percent of the sales of these pieces go to The Association of Recycling Pickers of Jardim Gramacho in efforts to transform the lives of these catadores.<\/p>\n

Source below
\nhttp:\/\/www.sunnking.com\/blog\/artist-vik-muniz-turns-trash-into-art\/<\/p>\n

Thank you
\nD.Lemur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Brazil Jardim Gramacho is the biggest landfill in the world.A virtual wasteland. I have just finished watching the movie,”WASTELAND”,a documentary about those who make art with it,those who live in it,and those who live by it.Artists,and garbage pickers,the well off,and the very,very poorest amongst us my friends. The slums,the people,the children and all that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}