Refuse for Collection by sandra46
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This is the group of rubbish/trash/garbage containers where I usually bring my waste to. I'd like to make you think I filled them all and much more with the stuff I discarded tidying my room, but it'd be a lie. Actually, I made this shot for the Rubbish Challenge of July in the Photography Forum, even if in the end I posted other shots. I also gave it a touch of grunge to add a bit of urban poetry.;D)
In Italian the words for waste, or refuse,rubbish/trash/garbage are Spazzatura and Immondizia. The former comes from the Latin spatiari, make room, and of course sweep with a broom. The broom in Latin was scopae, that is a tool made with twigs. It is a pragmatist way of seeing the thing, and it gave origin to the Venetian words scoar (Italian scopare,to sweep, it also has a sexual meaning bith in Italian and Venetian) and scoasse (rubbish/trash/garbage)all from scopae(Broom). In the Neapolitan dialect, on the contrary, it is the latter word, immondizia,that gave origin to the Neapolitan monnezza. It comes from the Latin immundus, impure, and has a religious way of looking at rubbish. This said, I'm not going to tell you that the recent Trash crisis in Naples was caused by this linguistic difference which hides a different philosophy about trash. It's simply that the collection of trash was mostly in the hands of the local mafias.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (28)
lyron
Great capture!!
flora-crassella
it`s shame! Great story and photo!!!!
carlx
Excellent imagination!!!
magnus073
Great capture Sandra and my what a lot of rubbish.
Sea_Dog
I like this very unusual image. The way you combined the grunge technique and the trash containers is great. Well done!
virginiese
una bella lezione d'etimologia sù un sogetto divertente :-) Bel effeto grunge sulla tua fotografia !
brycek
Terrific capture!!
claude19
SPLENDID comment and great realist shot !!! TERRIFIC capture as write brycek !!!
flaviok
Esplendida captura e comentário, excelente minha amiga, aplausos (5)
Amosicho
Great shot !
Miska7
Very nice image and post work! Well done.
3x3
awesome shot x
MC-Jay-One
Excellent image, i like the atmosphere!
MOSKETON
ERES FANTASTICA. CAPTURANDO LA REALIDAD COTIDIANA. FELICIDADES.
MrsLubner
You've been in my back yard, haven't you? LOL Wonderful work - grunge on grunge. :-)
timtripp
very interesting!
mgtcs
Great capture and narrative! Excellent!
Radar_rad-dude
Quite a lot of revelations in your descriptive! Lovely trashy picture as well! You amaze me how you can take a pile of trash and turn it into a masterpiece!
pops
Excellent capture
bazza
lovely capture, and lesson on rubbish lol, they tell me the mafia have there hands in the rubbish business here in New Zealand too..
decie
wonderful photo, one would never think that it possible to get a great photo from rubbish.
Thetis
fantastic capture, excellent
lucindawind
cool shot !
ShadowsNTime
I never have time for the challenges anymore...great shot!
anahata.c
the grunging adds to the poetry, you're right. It makes the picture shine. Jasper Johns & other artists of the 80s in New York put actual brooms into their paintings—speaking of spazzare. A dear friend often refered to meditation as her spazzatina (hope I spelled that correctly!), her "mental dusting". It's nice that Italian has several views of garbage. Your image is a wonderful pile-up of stuff, the grays shimmer because of your light & filtering, and the composition makes it all teeming. A creative vision, I love that you gave us Latin roots as well as the lore behind the word. And mafia involvement in garbage disposal is common in the U.S. too, just not as virulent. (They save their virulence for other fields.) Another fine upload from you. And to some artists (me included), garbage, decay, etc etc, is profoundly expressive. It's just life from a different angle. I appreciate that you shared it here. (PS—if you want to see the Jasper Johns painting, it's here. Click to enlarge: That's a real broom, btw.)
Minda
another excellent capture sandra!!
renecyberdoc
Mafia huh??inst the whole world mafia,governements as well (at least some). and in luxembourg we use the word (broom etx) also in sexual meaning. i go and broom the gal-hehehe in english it sounds of course stupid. nice tidbit of information.
bebert
very poetic LOL very nice work