One small island in the Salish Sea, 350 people off-grid. Voices In the Wilderness documents this remote community, conjuring and interrogating our nostalgia for a life known via clichés cemented by time and distance. Residents use power, but create their own electricity using alternative sources: solar, wind, and micro-hydro. While traditional currency is exchanged for goods & services, most islanders have adopted a system of work-trade and bartering. The island is a microcosm of the wider world, where people must balance independence with co-dependence—where survival requires collaboration between cross-section of characters: nomads & draft dodgers, young families & solitary retirees, homesteaders & environmentalists. This work witnesses the complex harmonies and dissonances of their various—and varying—voices in the wilderness
