Carport

Austin has created a carport that frames the landscape of the desert. This piece was inspired by another ongoing project of Austin’s, a 1973 EI Camino truck-bed converted into a patio for social events. The carport is loosely meant for her car. Her interest in ports for cars came from their recent ” comeback.” As her converted truck-bed is now a place to hang out, so is the new use for carports. They act as a setting forget togethers and extra storage. Austin says, “Its original intent ceases to exists and it (now) remains a structure of the surrounding landscape.” Soon after Austin completed the project in September, someone drew a question mark on the carport. Apparently carports have yet to make their comeback in the desert. Austin describes its current state as a “desert pagoda.”

—from the HDTS 3 catalogue

   
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