Believe it or not, 86 metal shopping
carts were balanced atop one another to form this 33-foot-tall holiday tree
which graced the Frank
Gehry-designed Edgemar mall in Santa Monica, California last year. Designed
by artist Anthony Schmitt, this beacon of holiday spirit attracted a lot of
attention with its glittering good looks and rather unconventional
material.
“The shopping cart tree symbolizes both generosity and abundance, as well as
acknowledging those less fortunate where their whole world may be housed in a
cart. We see shopping carts every day and take them for granted. Individually
the beauty of an everyday object may become invisible, but in quantity you can’t
miss it,” says Anthony Schmitt of his design.
This actually isn’t the first time that the shopping cart tree has gone up – Schmitt conceived the idea 14 years ago at the request of Abby Sher, the former owner and developer of Edgemar, and the Colwell and Belden families have continued the annual tradition of commissioning the tree since buying Edgemar in 2007.
The 2010 tree is made out of mostly full size carts with some smaller versions at the top to create a forced perspective of height. The carts are supported by an internal structure that remains nearly invisible, allowing the carts to seem like they were merely stacked atop one another and left in that perilous formation.
This actually isn’t the first time that the shopping cart tree has gone up – Schmitt conceived the idea 14 years ago at the request of Abby Sher, the former owner and developer of Edgemar, and the Colwell and Belden families have continued the annual tradition of commissioning the tree since buying Edgemar in 2007.
The 2010 tree is made out of mostly full size carts with some smaller versions at the top to create a forced perspective of height. The carts are supported by an internal structure that remains nearly invisible, allowing the carts to seem like they were merely stacked atop one another and left in that perilous formation.
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