Kazan, The Shopping Cart Man
2003
Sculpture in Fabric
22.5" High

Street scavenging is very practical as a survival option, but, once things begin to accumulate, then they have to be arranged, and the natural human proclivity fo relatedness begins to insinuate the element of art and personal style into the exercise. One passes my window quite regularly, sometimes with an apprentice, and I found myself listing his inventory as a fetish display, especially after seeing his plush toys in roadside shrines where children have been traffic victims. Art is an enabler of complexity, not just in scavenging, but in all of our daily lives.

Lisa Lichtenfels