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Lewis and Cart

Have you ever been in a grocery store aisle and thought this would be a great place to make camp? Or you’ve been in the great outdoors and thought how much simpler life would be with a shopping cart around. It looks like artist Kevin Cyr has your number.

Inspired by the bucolic Brooklyn countryside Mr. Cyr has created a proof of concept that combines America’s two greatest treasures – the natural landscape and shopping. The Center for Prevention of Shopping Cart Abuse is impressed with the innovation of this project, we look forward to s’more.

Double Trouble

If you are a fan of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen you would be distraught to see them mutilated and bound together for the sake of creating a kitchen island. Yes, they would suddenly be useful… still, any utilitarian celebration would be tempered by disgust of such cultural icons forced to uphold something counter to their primary purpose. Imagine a similar situation, only this time the wire frames are two shopping carts.

When the Apartment Therapy website gives us a tour of Peter’s apartment we see the usual I’m a designer look at my designerery apartment touches – the jigsaw table and the ironic 80’s tv show artwork. We also see a Frankenhipster nightmare of shopping cart mutilation and abuse. We hope Pete the designer guy learns to pair his aesthetic with decency towards the noble shopping cart.

Carts In Fog

The lot steps off into whiteness.
People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

The car leaves a line of breath.
O slow
Sedan the colour of rust,

Wheels, dolorous wobbles —-
All morning the
Morning has been blackening,

A bag left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Streets melt my heart.

They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark asphalt.

A Walk on the Wild Side

Some things just defy explanation.