Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

even though it isn't my birthday.

Come here you beautiful thing.

with the camera was going to do something like this?

Remember that first day at Jardim Gramacho?

Because I got shot in the leg.

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

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

Until you saw it?

When I am going back to my car...

It's not bad to be poor.

but also... Can it change people?

Is that something bad one way or another?

Give mommy a kiss! Give me a kiss!

No as a person really.

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

Then I got what you crazy people were up to.

that they were happy there.

It's hard for me.

And it's like this all over.

Hi, how are you doing?

Suelen and her two kids.

owned by the drug traffic.

But when there are wars between the favelas...

They liked my look, my style.

There's so much excess that it becomes art.

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

Artists have to suffer, don't you know?

They get closer and see just the material.

That's it exactly! That's right!

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

Right next to my mother-in-law.

My husband became unemployed.

Lot number 272.

You're sowing, throwing grain like this.

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

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

Very cool, man!

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

We sold it for US$50,000.

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

and he gave me some money.

It's horrible how people really believe...

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

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

And you are going to create everything?

My son was so beautiful, he was very beautiful.

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

Excuse me, Sebastião?

He's like this.

So I do hope obviously that his risk...

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

but we're going to change that.

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

from a childhood like that to being very sad grownups.

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

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

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

I knew that I could do the work.

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

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

Sold. What's your number?

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