Brazilian Artist’s Mural Shows Climate Disasters — VOA Learning English
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Brazilian artist and activist Mundano recently used some unusual substances to paint a picture on a building in Sao Paulo. The paint included materials, such as ash and mud, collected from natural disasters.
Mundano created the mural to highlight the issue of climate change. Extreme weather events have been causing destruction across Brazil.
The mural is very large – over 30 meters high and 48 meters wide. The artist used ash from wildfires and mud from floods. His painting shows the gray remains of trees on a brown land so dry it is cracked. The picture represents the deforestation and severe drought in the Amazon rainforest.
The mural also shows Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap wearing a…
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