Photo: Kevin Cyr
New York-based artist Kevin Cyr is trying to construct a functional camper that's built onto a shopping cart. It's an expression of his fascination with vehicles and an exploration of a simple lifestyle:
It's a functioning sculptural piece that seeks to explore aspects of housing, mobility, and autonomy. It is also largely about self-reliance and making due with less.
I have always been interested in bikes and vehicles and for many years they have been the subject of my paintings. My paintings document odd and derelict vehicles: old delivery trucks inundated with graffiti and rust, well-traveled RVs, Indian rickshaws and Asian bikes.
Throughout the last year, I decided to build my own type of vehicles. On a trip to Beijing, I conceived and built a CAMPER BIKE: an amalgamation of a Chinese 3-wheeled flatbed bike with an American cabover style camper. Interested in building a series of mobile vehicles and inspired by Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, I started sketching plans for CAMPER KART: a mobile unit built into a shopping cart—an ubiquitous urban object.
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b) But you can't sleep in it? Because that's kind of key. I speak as a person who has just returned from four months traveling/camping, and who read The Road during my trip. I am speaking as an erudite homeless apocalyptic person, that is. So where's the utility? I'm over art that points toward the functional without actually being so.
c) hi everybody.
If you can't sleep in it, it's not really a camper.