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42. Trash Apotheosis

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42. Trash Apotheosis "Drawing Exercises" 807 x 700 px., gif 2022 "Você inventa o luxo Eu invento o lixo" Ui! by Tom Zé Trash has a deep history in Brazilian culture, as the neocolonial destination for Western culture. I remember that growing up in the US also meant that I would watch the latest blockbusters and play the latest games, about a year before my Brazilian family. Same went with technologies like broadband internet and phones with cameras. This is the reality of the Global South, being designated the last stop of progress. This reality has colored Brazilian art for centuries. We make the best out of what we have, sometimes it's trash, but we can still make it beautiul and our own. Thinking of the Manifesto Antropófago (Tupi or not Tupi). Thinking about chanchadas spoofing 50s hollywood films. Thinking about Tropicalia (Baby, voce precisa aprender ingles), thinking about cinema marginal (udigrúdi), thinking about Jorge Furtado's 1989 short film masterpiece "Ilhas das Flores" (Isle of Flowers, it's on Youtube btw), thinking about all the melody songs that lift US pop earworms, thinking about all the funk and experimental and dirty media Brazilians have made. Trying to think about the ones I don't know about yet. All the treasures we'll make out of trash because we live on the frontiers of trash. When trash drowns out entire civilizations, we will still be there. Anyways, happy trash art day! ** > Created in Deluxe Paint IV on an emulated Amiga A1200 computer. // Artwork by Sabato Visconti // www.sabatobox.com // @sabatobox on Twitter //

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