
About this project
I'm building the CAMPER KART: a pop-up camper affixed to a shopping cart. 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 do 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.
I'm about one third through the construction process. I have a basic structure built into a found shopping cart—including a front and back door, side pop-out panels, and shell of the roof. My next steps are to design and construct the corner lifts then purchase and sew the canvas walls.
With your support, I can not only finish the construction, but document the piece through drawings, paintings, and a photographic print.
Thank you for your consideration,
Kevin
To view more of my work, please visit:
http://www.kevincyr.net
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CAMPER KART woven patch
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5" x 7" silkscreen print of CAMPER KART, signed and numbered line drawing
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8" x 10" archival pigment print of BERRY, featured in the video
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8" x 10" archival pigment print of CAMPER KART, photographed on white seamless background
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16" x 20" silkscreen print of CAMPER KART, signed and numbered diagrammatic line drawing
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16" x 20" archival pigment print of CAMPER KART, photographed on white seamless backdrop
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Kevin Cyr was born in Edmundston, NB, Canada and grew up in the paper mill town of Madawaska, Maine. Cyr received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and featured in New American Paintings.