An Interesting Art about Shopping Cart

As a large manufacturing country, of course, also a large shopping cart manufacturing  country, shopping cart has become grdually a kind of tools that is necessary for our life. It is known that we would be very inconvenient if we go to supermarket without shopping cart. Moreover, some people can use shopping carts to make some interesting arts.

About five years ago, Brett, 45, relocated to Tampa from New York with her husband and young children and found studio space in a converted cigar factory. She works in different media, including painting.

For a conceptual piece, she used repurposed candy boxes and was left with a lot of candy. She began arranging it into forms that became a mandala, almost unconsciously.

Though it looked like a frothy confection, Brett realized that it related to traditional mandalas in meaningful ways. It was as ephemeral as a Buddhist sand mandala yet, unlike the latter, it wasn't a symbol of temporal life. Candy, a consumer product, is temporary because we eat it.

She hired a photographer to shoot her assemblages and had prints made. They attracted the attention of a New York gallery owner who began representing her and in 2013, prints were displayed and sold in Dylan's Candy Bar, a popular destination in New York owned by the daughter of designer Ralph Lauren.

But... shopping carts?

"It's the same idea," she said. "The briefness of the installation and its consumer associations."

Brett draws a schematic for the carts' arrangement as a guide and a store employee lets Brett and her helpers — she likes to have 5 — into the store at about 5:30 a.m. to grab the carts. The design is assembled as quickly as possible and photographed aerially. Then the carts are put back in place for the soon-to-arrive customers.

"Home Depot keeps their carts outside overnight so no one had to unlock the doors," Brett said.

She has completed three shopping cart mandala installations so far.

"The first one was hard," she said, because coordinating all the cart movement was challenging. "Now (the volunteers) hand me the carts and I put them in place. Then they help me tweak their placement."

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