Make Art, Not Trash

In their battle for salary increase, the garbage men of the city of Amsterdam decided to strike in May.

Their actions led to an entire city full of stinky trash. We were lucky that it wasn’t that warm, otherwise we should have hired some pied piper. In order to make the city a bit more beautiful during these hard times, artist and party organizer Jesse Limmen decided to buy eightteen spray cans and color up the hills of gray plastic. Make art, not trash. Click here for a full series of pictures.

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