Monday, September 26, 2016

September 26 post ,TRASH

"All those swollen  rat bites on his cheeks,on the back of his head......garbage piled up in their hut ,and rats came to"page 16
so talking about the vocation of collecting and sorting trash for a living....as Abdul and his family and many other families living in slums did...a big problem..rats...if he left it outside,it got stolen..".

The book goes into details about the difficulties and challenges of sorting  bottle caps...some had plastic linings and that had to be stripped out before the caps could  be placed in an aluminum pile..lol..they talk a bout the complexities of "rich"people's trash....the owners, (he sold the trash to), of the recycling plant had to have what they call"pure"trash...


I am stopping here for a moment as I am giving one of my classes an art project related to trash...we are making Tapestries on burlap with only found objects which includes trash..El Anatsui,an African artist has been doing this with bottle caps and tabs from cola cans I will include a video on his process which I am showing today to my students and these are som e of the beginnings of their tapestries,below.I will write more after class.

here are a few..this is Contemporary Crafts...

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