Dump Cake - Vilma Slomp

   In a random accident, I photographed this series as a travel inventory in the rural area between Delhi and Jaipur in the Rajasthan region of northwest India on a winter morning in 2010.

   Within the aesthetic concept of my perception and receptivity I sought in the alignment of poses, movements, details the highlight of the figures in relation to space.

Women prepare natural fuel - dump cake - with their hands making pellets that flatten and dry to the taste of time. This fuel used for the production of heat is prepared with organic matter, cow dung, the sacred animal that represented the most precious wealth of the Arian tribes.

   With this odorless dry manure, in addition to the fire to prepare their food, these poor Indians protect themselves from the icy winds of the Himalayan mountain range and also use it as a mosquito repellent.

   To store, they make dozens of stacks about 3 meters high in the shape of houses or towers and they are made with soft excrement decorated with geometric designs.

In this imaginary realism to representation we have informative richness as a mirror of social memory, bringing the aesthetic freshness of vanity as an ancestral ritual in a scenario that is paradoxical to our culture.