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Kart: Study

The boxes on Kart are either blank, layered, or from a variety of present locations. They are left alone as remnants or re-branded with symbols to form a cohesive meld of discarded and reused present everywheres with future pervasive brands: Bechtel, Suez, Lockheed Martin, GE, Exxon (all essentials and commodity-driven companies) represented through their signs as powerful forces. If this is supposed to be a sampling of boxes that describe this world, the excess of these oligopolistic company labels explains their lock on commodities.
Recreated daily, Kart expounds on rules learned by Breton’s 1924 Surrealist Manifesto: Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. Kart is covered in braided rope and symbolic language, threaded around and into each other, holding the bundles together and telling a story about the throes of technology, the assumed and shifting identities of cultures and individuals, global economic and cultural tensions, survival and mobility. For the owner, Kart is a mobile livelihood. It is a metaphor for expansion, and at the same time a personal, Sysiphusian reality of struggle through change. Through the myth and reality of cargo cults (brought on by war machines) and through symbols that are the only remnants of language as we know it today, Kart describes colonialism in its future form.

A driver, a bum, a myth, a nomad, a noone.