Trash Totem is a 3D sculpture that arises from accumulation and imbalance. Discarded everyday objects – wheels, industrial parts and urban remains – are organized in an unstable vertical structure, as if trying to reconstruct a ritual meaning from what no longer has a use. The work proposes a clash between the symbolic and the residual: a totem pole built with garbage, where each element retains its functional identity but loses its original purpose. The red fire hydrant acts as a visual and conceptual anchor, supporting a fragile system that seems on the verge of collapse. Trash Totem functions as a metaphor for the contemporary urban landscape: layers of consumption, repetition and excess piled up without a clear order, but loaded with meaning. It is an improvised monument to forgotten matter and to the constant tension between balance and fall.