By Lisa Huddleston
Forest, trees
Forest, trees
Back and forth
the transformation
takes place
Art to garbage
And back again
“He gives life
to garbage.”
Picker to Artist
Garbage to Art
And back again?
On which side will
they stay?
Do they have a
choice?
“I never saw myself
as a piece of
art.”
Somewhere between
Forest and trees
Back and forth
the transformation
happens
Potential realized
Image bearing
Revealed
Garbage becomes
Art
Written in response to “Waste Land,” a documentary film about visual artist, Vik Muniz, and the pickers of Jardim Gramacho.
