Street artist with brick dust pollution in Beijing

Nut Brother, 34, a street artist spent 100 days in a row vacuuming Beijing's capital. Finally with the amount of dust collected, he cast a complete brick.

Brick from dust pollution

While the Beijing people are hiding in their apartments every day, avoiding the dusty air pollution to the horror of the Chinese capital, a man, day by day pushes the industrial vacuum cleaner of I am around Beijing 4 hours a day, for 100 consecutive days.

Photo of the 36th day in Brother Brother's 100-day vacuuming series .

It was a 34-year-old street artist who named himself "Nut Brother" , from Shenzhen. He has no intention of wanting to "clean up" the polluted atmosphere of Beijing's capital. The true purpose of Nut Brother is to through their street performances, people will be more aware of the problem of air being on a dirtier day. After the end of the series of performances, Nut Brother will take all the Beijing smoke into a brick.

Every day since the end of July, people saw a ponytail man carrying a vacuum cleaner all over the city in his working coat, occasionally wearing an oxygen mask. Nut Brother traveled all over the city, from Tiananmen Square to the National Bird's Nest Stadium, then to the Environmental Protection Bureau. Every day passed on this artist's Weibo page to update the image he was performing because of the road-taking people.

Day 83 at Limin Hutong.

And on November 30, the last day of Nut Brother's "100-day demonstration" series, he brought his results to a brick factory, mixing the dust with clay, creating a semi-finished brick. In a few days, undergoing drying and drying, the complete brick made from Beijing's dust will be officially born. He also revealed that the "dust cloud" he had harvested weighed approximately 100 grams, and it was no different when mixed with clay to make bricks. However, the meaning of the brick lies in its symbolic power.

"Beijing's atmosphere is so bad, there is no other source of air," Nut Brother said in an interview with Quartz.

Nut Brother's dust-free bricks.

He revealed that the idea of ​​making bricks from Beijing dust came to him in 2013 after the 34-year-old man had a long time living in the capital, as well as the problem of air pollution is becoming invisible. the same pain today. Through the performance, Nut Brother hopes people will think more about protecting the environment, and understand more about the relationship between people and nature.

Nut Brother said that when the brick is complete, he will take it to a Beijing construction site and let him "join" the building materials buddy association. He wanted to let the brick disappear into the skyscrapers, to "drop a drop of water into the ocean".

Day 86 full of fog at Beijing CCTV headquarters.

Day 98 at Wangjing Soho.