About

Our goal is to raise funds for local charities and raise awareness about homelessness and poverty in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Living in Vancouver can be rough, same as any big city.  It’s not uncommon to see people pushing or pulling carts filled with all their worldly posessions, or just their day’s work. For someone with no choice or options any way to make an honest dollar does it. Maybe it’s a lifestyle choice. They could beg or steal, but they don’t. Instead they are up at 4 or five in the morning turning garbage into green.

Is the shopping cart a vehicle? Just like a bicycle, it has some wheels, a steel frame, and moves with manpower. The wonderful documentary Carts of Darkness shows a little Cart Culture from the inside.

While a good number of shopping carts are stuffed with bottles and cans for their deposit value, just as many are piled with all kinds of salvage. Odds and ends gathered from dumpster diving and alley scavenging. Cart culture exists only because of the value in our refuse. The way some carts are filled is art. Impossible stack heights, bulging forms spilling from the standardized confining lines of a container. It’s not just the objects that interest me but the whole composition. That is Cart Culture. Here is our attempt at sharing it.

Send us your pictures: Please include the cross street, City and email it to cartculture@hotmail.com