Hornby Island Free Store and Recycling Depot

Hornby Island Free Store and Recycling Depot

Hornby Island's free store and recycling depot consists of an open structure at the end of a long dirt road, surrounded by various piles of recyclable materials, a compost pile, and a diminutive trash pile (two industrial sized dumpsters for the entire island). The building is filled with still utilizable objects such as clothes and electronics or bundles of material: cardboard, plastic jugs, crushed cans, etc. Thus, what this presents is a community's discards in the unusual position of being totally accessible and visible to the common person. By documenting this experience, it allowed me to reflect on the constructive potential of utopian projects like the recycling depot and free store and by extension the utopian space represented by community of Hornby itself.

APRIL 6th - 15th