Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

We sold it for US$50,000.

My husband became unemployed.

But if you're saying you liked it better after you understood it...

you can be sure that a lot of dead bodies will be dumped here.

Can you tell us how you came to use materials from the garbage?

Yes, I make US$20-$25 a day.

Why do you have to take somebody's life and change it forever?

What we should do now is get rid of...

On You Tube there is a video that was shot at this place called Gramacho.

They liked my look, my style.

with the camera was going to do something like this?

So we're going to make a really big photograph of this.

- Since you were 11. At the landfill? - Yes, at the landfill.

even though it isn't my birthday.

It's hard for me.

I have a plan to make a community library in my space.

When I am going back to my car...

Artists have to suffer, don't you know?

And I'll use the PET and glass more as filler.

Come here you beautiful thing.

It's because I was working over there in the dump.

Give mommy a kiss! Give me a kiss!

Lot number 272.

Right next to my mother-in-law.

It is at the far back of the room...

It got to the point where I'd say: Excuse me ma'am, but do I stink?

There's so much excess that it becomes art.

but also... Can it change people?

and he gave me some money.

So I do hope obviously that his risk...

from a childhood like that to being very sad grownups.

You're sowing, throwing grain like this.

And you are going to create everything?

Suelen and her two kids.

owned by the drug traffic.

I never dreamed there would be a picture of me in a museum.

Because I got shot in the leg.

that they were happy there.

Is that something bad one way or another?

Remember that first day at Jardim Gramacho?

He's on the board of the Association of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho, ACAMJG.

My son was so beautiful, he was very beautiful.

Until you saw it?

Association for what? You're never going to achieve anything.

because they're dumped in the landfill all the time.

but we're going to change that.

Sold. What's your number?

But when there are wars between the favelas...

No as a person really.

I knew that I could do the work.

He's like this.

It's horrible how people really believe...

Hi, how are you doing?

That's it exactly! That's right!

They get closer and see just the material.

Excuse me, Sebastião?

Then I got what you crazy people were up to.

I never saw her again. Not since she was two.

And it's like this all over.

It's not bad to be poor.

Their father is a drug dealer. If I counted on him, I'd be screwed.

Very cool, man!