Brazilian artist Mundano created a mural using the ashes of the fires that destroyed the Amazon rainforest.
Brazilian artist Mundano used ash from the fires that ravaged the Amazon to create a mural.
The huge figure of a firefighter stands out among the huge buildings of San Paolo: it is the last work of Mundano, which represents the destroyed Amazon Forest, amidst flames and dead animals. The design was made using the ashes of the fires that destroyed the green lung of the world.
The artist traveled more than 10.000 km (6.200 miles) through Brazil in June and July, collecting ashes from the rainforest. She also met with firefighters and volunteers to hear their stories.
I'm using the crime evidence. The whole painting was created with the ashes of the forest: it is the forest turned to dust, what is left after the fires. I crossed the Pantanal, the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, to see with my own eyes (the destruction of the fires), to feel that sadness and, above all, to collect the ashes.
Mundano said.
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This mural is part of a multimedia project that combines art and activism - “artivism” - to denounce the destruction of Brazil's environment. In August 2021, satellites recorded 28.060 fires in the Brazilian Amazon.
The men and women of the caves made cave paintings with coal. I go back to this technique, but I'm using the evidence of the crime. In this way I make art, which is 'artivism', art committed to a cause. This culture of fire stop, it is leading us to self-destruction. We are destroying nature and we are nature. I believe we are carrying out a process of self-destruction. This mural is a protest, a cry for help.
commented the artist.
The latest report by the non-governmental organization Imazon, which monitors the health of the forest, highlights a very serious situation. Over a period of time from August 2020 to July 2021, 10.476 km2 were cleared; in just one year the deforestation rate of 80%.
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and is seen as one of the bulwarks capable of combating climate change, by virtue of the enormous amount of carbon dioxide it is able to absorb. However, recent research questions the efficiency of this extraordinary green lung, plundered by continuous deforestation actions.
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