The Hobbyist at Lumière

The Lumière Art-at-Night festival was top notch.  The organizers, community members, and artists really came together to make for a wonderful night of art throughout the city of Sydney, NS.  

I was performing onsite maintenance as The Hobbyist, walking the main area of the festival for the duration of the night.  On my route, I was picking up plastic, talking to people about plastic, and sorting through the garbage that people were throwing into my over-decorated, handmade receptacles.  

Overall, I noticed that 90% of the garbage I came into contact with was drink related (i.e. single use containers for coffee or high-sugar beverages).  The remaining 10% was mostly food related packaging with a little bit of miscellaneous garbage mixed in there.  I found these ratios surprising.  Perhaps it is due to the nature of an outdoor art festival... I look forward to conducting more case-studies with these receptacles.

Here is some documentation of the night.  Photos by Corey Katz.