Hopes and Dreams

A series of interventions on the city’s communal rubbish disposal units produced shortly before the first Covid lockdown. The paper and cardboard unit became a place to deposit your “Hopes”, in the hope that they would be recycled. “Dreams” went in to the general waste unit. On a side note, one set of these units is the site of a well funded public art commission where artists were curated by the councils art committee to “decorate” the external walls of the underground containers, Hidden from view apart from a five minute window once a month at 7am when a disposal truck with crane attachment lifts them out to be emptied. Amongst the falling debris, grease and stinking rubbish, you may be offered a glimpse of art. A fitting, though no doubt unintentional tribute to bureacratic public art ideas and programs.

Main Photo: Brian Tallman