Shopping Cart Art

With abandoned shopping carts littering urban rivers and canals, what are we to do with them? Drew Gardner has a solution. He has decided to create wire sculptures of water wirelife out of them.

The osprey is the perfect fisherman, using its feet and sharp eyesight to hunt. This metal version, however, should perhaps keep clear of open water.

Trolley good show - metallic art.

Apart from the ecological commentary, this "shopping cart art" is plain neat. Taking a familiar object of consumer spending and reformatting it as a sculpture is not just about creating a "message" — it is fun! Admit it to yourself: you want to know how he did. You want to know how he mutated a shopping cart into an osprey.

In my opinion, even if you do not know where these shopping carts came from, the art still speaks for itself.