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Bucket Ecosystem is a project where the 5 gallon plastic buckets used in the day-to-day functioning of maintaining my family's home and garden are reconsidered as site and space for installation, collection and invention.
-Gabriel Bizen Akagawa

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

5 gallon bucket

The basic, ubiquitous 5-gallon bucket is now available at almost every hardware store, home improvement superstore, paint supply store, and automotive repair store in America. It is heavily used for shipping of foodstuffs as well. As a durable, easily-available container, it offers the handyman, DIY home remodeler, tinkerer,  pack rat, artist, and student a potentially water-tight toolbox, storage unit, mixing pail, general container, or seat. It is the huge variety of potential uses offered by this pedestrian object that makes it a valuable tool or repository worthy of respect and analysis. 

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