00:00In the Zacamil neighborhood of El Salvador, there is a mural that exists nowhere else in the world.
00:07It's over 13 meters high and made from more than 100,000 recycled plastic caps.
00:13It was created by Oscar Olivares, a 28-year-old Venezuelan artist who has been turning waste into large-scale
00:20urban art for years.
00:24The figure in the mural is a reinterpretation of the Mona Lisa, but adapted to the Salvadoran context,
00:31a dark-skinned woman with curly hair, dressed in the colors of the flag.
00:37Olivares says that she does not represent anyone in particular, but rather an ordinary citizen.
00:42The bottle caps were collected by neighbors and recyclers from the community itself, and used in their original color.
00:49The result is the beginning of what the artist wants to be an open-air museum in the heart of
00:54Zacamil.
01:14This is not his first project of this kind.
01:18Olivares' work is present in 22 countries, but this is the tallest he has made so far,
01:25setting a world record and turning Zacamil into a mecca for urban art.
01:29So this is not a part where the artist builds.
01:30So this is a part where we're waiting for a different approach and how it's going to be a bit,
01:30So this is what we are going to do if we're trying to get to, it's not just a way
01:34of dying,
01:34it's a part where we're trying to be a different approach.
01:36So this is where we are going to enter our next project of the Ofis and the God of Zacistan,
01:36So this is the line that we're going to put together as well.
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