Community

A shared sense of belonging occurs when people are able to negotiate and appreciate their complex and often messy differences.

 

6 November 2018

In looking for a contemporary example of community in art, we looked to Vik Muniz’s Pictures of Garbage series and how the monumental portraits he made with and of the garbage pickers of the world’s largest landfill transformed how they thought of themselves. We then borrowed from Muniz’s use of quotidian objects, using ground coffee to create high contrast portraits of the members of our class community.