Waste Land Page #4

it's PP. It's the most expensive.

And what about brown glass?

Glass we have to pick specially,

we normally don't pick glass.

- No?

- No, normally we don't.

- Do you have a price for it?

- Glass is US$0.06 cents per kilo.

- Six cents? It's cheaper than PET?

- Yeah, it's a lot cheaper.

- But it's a lot heavier.

- But it's a lot heavier.

What's all that mixed up over

there, bottles, that hoses...

That's all PVC.

PVC is almost all made up

of different objects.

Right.

There are jellies.

X-rays.

PVC is what I will use the most.

It gives you the feeling

of being "everything".

Of objects.

For me PVC is the filet mignon

Definitely.

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

To fill it up.

- Just white Paper.

- PET, metals.

Just white paper.

Watch the truck!

Here it comes!

Watch the truck!

Before coming to the landfill,

we had a calm life.

My mother still lived

with my father.

I was the oldest

and I had two younger brothers.

But then my father died.

You're sowing,

throwing grain like this.

- I'm sowing.

- Yeah.

This hand here

can be relaxed and open.

My mother was struggling.

We heard about Jardim Gramacho.

My mother came here,

and then I came too.

I started to help her out.

I was nine years old.

My mother worked here for a while,

but then she died as well.

Once, I was collecting

here on the ramp...

when the gate

of the garbage truck fell off.

It fell on me, and started

to drag me and crush me...

I broke my leg, my arm.

I fractured a rib.

I broke my other arm here.

I was in really bad shape.

If it weren't for my friends here...

Over 20 people donated blood.

It was great for the hospital

because their blood bank was filled.

People here gave me

a lot of support.

It's better than during the day,

there are less people.

It's better than being out there...

like a lot of people,

prostituting yourself.

We are working honestly.

We're earning our living.

I've worked

since I was seven years old.

Now I'm 18.

I eat what I find around here.

I take it from the truck.

Yogurt comes along,

whatever comes along, I eat it.

If I don't die, it's not bad.

I can get by.

We see things

that aren't pleasant.

Like the other day I went up there

and something made me throw up...

There was a baby there

that had been thrown away.

I fell over backwards.

I immediately thought

of my own kids.

- It was dead?

- Yes.

Rent is US$8 per week.

If you are late and pay

on Monday it's US$13.

I go home to see my kids

every couple of weeks.

Sometimes I'll just go

and come back on the same day.

My daughter is three years old,

my son is almost two.

Their father is a drug dealer.

If I counted on him, I'd be screwed.

Sometimes I get visitors,

the rats.

They run around in the roof.

It drives me crazy.

I run out of here screaming.

Even when they're asleep,

they annoy me.

They fall off the roof

onto the bed sometimes.

Bye.

- Leaving already?

- Yes.

My daughter caught a fungus.

My mother also got the fungus.

The thing covered her foot.

It messed up her whole foot.

She ended up staying at home

and taking care of my kids.

- Where are you going?

- Home.

I would like

to take care of children.

I really love children,

my own as well as other people's.

If it was up to me,

I'd open a day care center.

There are so many children.

Come here you beautiful thing.

How are you?

Come here you beautiful thing.

Give mommy a kiss!

Give me a kiss!

And you? Are you OK?

No?

No?

What's going on?

And you? Are you OK?

Here is our kitchen.

It's small, but you can still

make a little something in it.

We make food on that stove.

Here is the living room

where we put a bunc of junk.

The bathroom is here.

Oh this bathroom is bad,

cut the bathroom.

Here's the bedroom.

This isn't a bed,

it's really just a chest of drawers.

We improvised

and put the mattress on top.

Everyone sleeps piled up here.

Here's the most recent baby

of the house.

TV. Fan.

I moved here after

I split from their father.

He beat me and I got so hurt,

I had to get out of there.

And there was no other way

to survive, so I stayed here.

She is my eldest and she took

care of the kids so I could work.

We had to survive somehow.

After a while, we all had

to go to the garbage.

There was no one to leave them

with, so I brought them with me.

I moved in with their father

when I was twelve.

I'm proud of my work...

because at least I'm not involved

with the drug traffic...

or prostituting myself, like a lot

of pretty girls around here do.

They could be trying to achieve

something in life, but no.

They prefer to throw themselves

out there onto the street...

prostituting themselves.

Right there.

Magnetic tape.

Is that film?

Yes, there are a lot

of rolls up there.

I'm going to be Mona Lisa.

What's that?

It has be a woman of a certain age

to wear shoes like that.

She must have worked

as an executive, right?

To work in a shoe

with a pointy toe like that?

Here's a tape.

They must have a camera.

- A camera film.

- And they've got a computer.

This trash is totally

middle class.

Wait a minute, Playboy?

"Dear Subscriber...

you are now part of an exclusive

club that receives Playboy...

the best men's magazine

in the country."

This guy liked...

And then he died.

This guy didn't

have a lot of money.

This one here?

This comes from poor people

because it comes in little bags.

- "Poor is the trash of the poor."

- I put my trash in little bags too.

To think you guys have

gone through my trash.

Actually I like this picture.

What we should do now

is get rid of...

is choose the best pictures.

This one.

So good.

Yeah, I love it too.

Super super strong.

This is super strong.

This is super strong, also.

I love Isis and Suelem

but these shots aren't quite right.

We can shoot them

in the studio also.

Yeah, it's not a problem.

- How's it going?

- What's up?

How are you?

Everyone who goes to a museum,

goes up to a painting...

and then they stop

and start to go like this.

Have you seen this?

Everyone does it.

- Are they drunk?

- It looks like it.

They go like this,

and then they go back...

maybe take a little step back.

And then they see the image.

Imagine it's a beautiful landscape

with a lake and a man fishing.

They look and see

the man fishing...

and they lean in an everything

vanishes and becomes paint.

They see the material.

They move away

and see the image.

They get closer

and see the material.

They move away

and see the idea.

They get closer

and see just the material.

Since we're pickers,

we just see recyclable materials.

- It earns money.

- But that's interesting...

You have one point of view.

I got it what this

can do with people.

I bet you people stay much longer

at your exhibits than anyone does.

They'll spend so much time

looking at the image...

because then they'll see

the ladder, the piano.

They'll look at everything.

They'll spend hours looking

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