TRIBUNNEWS.COM - When you hear the word "garbage" the first thing that comes to mind are useless objects, dirty, sources of disease, and other negative stigmas.However, in the hands of creative people, trash can be transformed into objects of high artistic value.One person who has succeeded in turning trash into a work of art is Edy Suranta Ginting.This young man who was born in Tanah Karo has succeeded in turning plastic waste into works of art of high value, even penetrating foreign markets."When I first started painting, I used to have sponsors from Berlin, Germany and brought all my paintings to Europe. Almost all countries are Mexico, Canada, Alabama, Switzerland, Australia. This is because the environmental volunteers I am related to are mostly Caucasians (foreigners). all. For the most expensive painting, it was sold for 10,000 euros or Rp. 170 million," said Edy, quoted from Tribun Medan.Edy's journey in the world of painting has been going on since 2016.At that time, he only relied on his creativity, without receiving a formal education in art.Through that creativity, he was able to create two types of paintings: idealism and order.The two themes certainly have striking differences.Edy explained, for ordered paintings, usually the customers often order face paintings made from plastic waste.He also allocated some of the paintings to help humanitarian actions, to buying school attributes for children in the interior of Indonesia."If you order painting, you don't need to use ideas.So, I allocated it to rural children,” he explained.Meanwhile, his idealistic paintings tend to raise social themes which are more in demand by art lovers.Not infrequently art lovers often pay dearly for idealistic paintings made by Edy."My style is actually solarism. It's more of an imagination, for example, I look for a title first, then I break it down into a visualization. It's a social delivery. Caucasians like this style by giving creativity to the painter. So don't be surprised if you buy it at a price of hundreds of millions It's nothing extraordinary," he said.Garbage brings Edy around IndonesiaIn addition to creating works of art, trash also makes Edy travel around Indonesia, such as to Lampung, Mentawai, Bali, Sumba, Jember, Sulawesi, Banjarmasin, Kataambua, Wamena, to the borders of Timor Leste, and other areas.