Venezuelan artist creates mural with bottle caps

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STORY: This Venezuelan artist creates

street art with plastic bottle caps

Locator: Guatire, Venezuela

Oscar Olivares’ mural depicts vibrant macaws

and is 1,083 feet long

He says the project will use around 300,000 bottle caps

(Oscar Olivares, Artist)

“I think it perfectly shows that although we’re surrounded by so many broken things, we can create something that works. In addition, I think it must be inspiring for children and youngsters who dream of being artists, as generation after generation has been told that in Venezuela you can’t make it, that in Venezuela, nobody cares for art. But here we see what a piece of art moves.”