Matilda Terolli

Matilda Terolli — Grid

waste la(nd)b.

This is where I try to understand waste.

We live with waste, but rarely know where it comes from or where it will go.

I go to oceans, shorelines,rivers and landfills around the world where it collects - following how it moves, where it settles, and how it’s handled or left behind.

I’m interested in the layers that sit underneath what we usually ignore.

Oceans
[Tuvalu]

Shorelines
[Albania]

Rivers
[Albania]

Landfills
[Tuvalu]

I started this work by paying attention to what we throw away.

Not as a problem to fix, but as something that holds information about how we live, what we value, and what we choose to ignore.

I’m interested in where things go after they leave us, how long they stay, and what they become over time.

DUMPSTR.

We finish a coffee.

Toss the cup.

Open a package.

Break down the box.

Make pasta.

Throw away the glass jar.

Every day, without thinking.

DUMPSTR is for the moment just before you throw something away, the two seconds where you could ask: does this have to end here?

Photograph it. Log it. Find out what it could still become - a local drop-off, a reuse idea, someone nearby who needs exactly that material.

Not a recycling app. Not a guilt trip. A pause before the landfill.

For anyone living in a city full of things being thrown away.

In development · 2026

Circula.

Circula keeps things in circulation.
You hold an item, care for it, and pass it on.
Nothing ends. Everything moves.

In development · 2026