Wasteland Documentary
This blogpost is going to be an analysis of the Wasteland Documentary I watched for english class. In this blogpost the objectives are to describe the context of the piece, talk about the artist's purpose for the art, and analyze the story and the work.
This is an artist from New York, who goes to Brazil and collects recyclables from scavengers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and turns them into art. He does this in effort to "change the lives of the people, with the same material that they deal with everyday," (Vik Muniz). His next plans include working with garbage. The idea is to " [take] people away... from where they are, {to show} them another world, another place," and to see how it affects them and changes them. The landfill they go to, "Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Gardens)," is the biggest landfill in the sense of square footage, and of intake of trash per day. The garbage that goes there is a mix of garbage of a millionaire and a low-end neighborhood in Brazil. The end result was that, " The photos that Muniz made were sold at auction, and Muniz donated the proceeds $250,000 to the garbage pickers," (PBS NewsHour Anchor).
He would have resonance with some people because his artwork is something people who live everyday life anywhere in the world and have the problems and struggles some do; they can relate to the message the artwork portrays and the message Muniz intends to give off with the artwork. So, Muniz wants to "change the lives of the people, with the same material that they deal with everyday," in order to make it more than just a negative thing that they have to deal with. He uses it to create art that portrays the daily struggles people go through and in return uses that to fund those who are going through the struggles and help them better their lives. Like how Muniz donated the "$250,000" to the garbage pickers off of the garbage artwork he made. Showing that it may be a negative thing in their life that they have such a high intake of trash into the "Wasteland," yet they can use it and give it purpose to, so to speak, recycle it and provide it with that purpose. Instead of just throwing it aside and saying it's worthless. This also shows that, the people who are working there aren't there because their lives are great, so you can use it to try and help provide them with a start to a better life hopefully.
This is an artist from New York, who goes to Brazil and collects recyclables from scavengers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and turns them into art. He does this in effort to "change the lives of the people, with the same material that they deal with everyday," (Vik Muniz). His next plans include working with garbage. The idea is to " [take] people away... from where they are, {to show} them another world, another place," and to see how it affects them and changes them. The landfill they go to, "Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Gardens)," is the biggest landfill in the sense of square footage, and of intake of trash per day. The garbage that goes there is a mix of garbage of a millionaire and a low-end neighborhood in Brazil. The end result was that, " The photos that Muniz made were sold at auction, and Muniz donated the proceeds $250,000 to the garbage pickers," (PBS NewsHour Anchor).
He would have resonance with some people because his artwork is something people who live everyday life anywhere in the world and have the problems and struggles some do; they can relate to the message the artwork portrays and the message Muniz intends to give off with the artwork. So, Muniz wants to "change the lives of the people, with the same material that they deal with everyday," in order to make it more than just a negative thing that they have to deal with. He uses it to create art that portrays the daily struggles people go through and in return uses that to fund those who are going through the struggles and help them better their lives. Like how Muniz donated the "$250,000" to the garbage pickers off of the garbage artwork he made. Showing that it may be a negative thing in their life that they have such a high intake of trash into the "Wasteland," yet they can use it and give it purpose to, so to speak, recycle it and provide it with that purpose. Instead of just throwing it aside and saying it's worthless. This also shows that, the people who are working there aren't there because their lives are great, so you can use it to try and help provide them with a start to a better life hopefully.
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