Speculative Vehicles Part I | Daid Puppypaws

Focusing on vehicles for sustainable, human-powered, active and alternative urban mobility, the artist imagines a series of Speculative Vehicles at the expansive intersections of art, DIY, and function. Through a series of drawings, paintings, and both functional and non-functional vehicles, the S.V. project depicts the results of placing the means of production for vehicles back in the hands of the end user, in this case, the artist. 

Daid Puppypaws is a lifelong artist and advocate for sustainable transportation. Guided by the declaration that art is a practice of freedom inseparable from everyday life, they are also the founder of BLACKNASA, a space agency aimed to teach rocketry and the ideals of space exploration to underrepresented youth groups. Puppypaws also experiments with their own rocketry and noise music under the same name. They received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University, where they were a recipient of the Yale School of Art Social Justice Initiative Grant, and they currently live and work in Los Angeles.

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