Favella art from Brazil

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In Brazil we were staying in a beautiful hostel high on the hills of Santa Teresa, with a glorious view over the city out to Sugarloaf mountain in one direction and up to Christo in the other direction. The hostel, Casa 579, was sandwiched between 2 favellas, and as part of an ongoing community support initiative bought art from artists from these favellas to decorate the hostel. Because of the lack of funds the art was generally done on all manner of found materials including hubcaps, dust bin lids, cardboard and wood. These are a couple of the pieces I really liked including the favella bar with working lights. Nice.

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