This story is merely one day in the year. It begins with a collection of people. People of different backgrounds, different reasons for being at that dock in the Ventura Marina. 

It’s early morning. Early morning because the journey to the island by boat is approximately one hour. These guests are in for an experience. It’s a full day excursion out to the island where they will experience the environment in a whole new way. The land is not distorted, nor has it remained untouched. The sad truth is in order for architecture to prevail, for technology and development to occur, for the future ‘societal, political, economic’ growth of the planet, it seems the environment has to suffer in some way.

At least that’s what we as a society have be taught to think. But I can’t even say that we’ve been taught to think that. Who taught us that it’s ok to build factories distributing heavy toxins into the air? Who said it was ok to eat meat? Who allowed us to pollute the earth with all our nonsensical waste? It’s second nature for us to take from the earth and not put back what we have taken.  We’ve done it forever as the human race because it’s what we’ve needed to do to survive.

But we’ve reached a point. A point where we can no longer continue living this way because the planet will not last forever.

The excursion is not solving the issue of climate change. How could it? Sustainable practices are of course taken into consideration, but what this expedition is truly intended to do is to celebrate the wilderness that is left. Yes, it may seem futile and unproductive to ‘build’ something out on these island. And you know what, it very well may be. But the structures that are placed here, may be temporary. They may be more permanent. Only time will tell.