Jan 22

Shopping Cart Furniture

Posted:    Friday, January 22, 2010 in Things That Might Be Art
   January 22, 2010 11:49 AM 
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Los Angeles-based artist, Ramon Coronado, is in the midst of a twelve-week project that deals with “reclaiming an ordinary, everyday object and transforming it into something with a completely different purpose.” His first effort, titled Mercado Negro (Black Market), takes the ubiquitous shopping cart and turns it into usable pieces of furniture and playground equiptment. A statement about the project and additional photos can be found below.

“Moving to Los Angeles four years ago from the small population of Cathedral City was a major eye opener. Los Angeles felt like an entirely new world separate from everything that I had known or experienced before. With little knowledge of LA and it’s neighborhoods, I ended up living across
the street from MacArthur Park, a dangerous lower income area, overpopulated with homeless, and trash, but with a heavy Hispanic influence.

Spending a year in this area exposed me to the lack of recreational areas for kids in Los Angeles. The irony being that I lived across from MacArthur park, but because of it’s dangerous reputation,
no children would ever go there to play and often resorted to playing on the streets running in and out of traffic.

This area is filled with trash on the sidewalks, people sleeping everywhere, and an abundance of shopping carts. Shopping carts exist everywhere and anywhere throughout the city of LA and include themselves as part of LA’s landscape. A shopping cart says a lot about a city. Seeing one on every block adds attention to the poverty and that there is no control of private property.

I took it upon myself to take a shopping cart and make a statement with it. I reclaimed LA’s iconic shopping cart and created furniture for kids to enjoy in these urban Los Angeles areas. The project is a criticism of the scarcity of recreational functions for kids growing up in a dense city like
Los Angeles.”

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