Etsy: UrbArchaeology: Abandoned artifacts from an imperfect world.
The above link is to an online shop on Etsy which uses items found at abandoned sites, turns them into jewelry type items and sells them. What do you think about this? I’m not sure I like the ethics of it and yet my practical side thinks it does no harm to reuse these things rather than leaving them to rust away.
Still, I have always felt “take only photos and leave only footsteps” is the mantra for urban and rural explorers. I’ve never left so much as a paper coffee cup behind. I have not taken things from the sites, except… once I found a Pyrex bowl in a muddy area outside an abandoned house. I also have dug up some perennials plants and replanted them in active gardens. I felt I was saving the plants as weeds were crowding them and choking the life out of them. But, technically, it is taking more than photos.
Where do you stand on “take only photos, leave only footsteps”? Have you taken anything from an abandoned or derelict site? Have you ever left anything, not garbage necessarily but anything, even graffiti?
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