Eighty-four shopping carts form a 33-foot-tall “holiday tree” at the Frank Gehry-designed Edgemar compound in Santa Monica, California.
“The shopping cart tree symbolizes both generosity and abundance, as well as acknowledging those less fortunate where their whole world may be housed in a cart. We see shopping carts every day and take them for granted. Individually the beauty of an everyday object may become invisible, but in quantity you can’t miss it,” remarks artist Anthony Schmitt, pictured above. (photo by Fabian Lewkowicz)
To get a sense of the installation’s height and scale, look at this night shot.
For additional information, visit shoppingcarttree.com.
See also: earlier Unconsumption post about Sydney’s tree-cycle, made from 100 bicycles.
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