Pimp My Piragua (2008-2009) is a mobile public art project that commemorates the innovations of Latino street vendors, transforming a traditional pushcart for selling shaved ice (piraguas) into a hyper-modified tricycle-pushcart with a hi-fi sound and video system.
Pimp My Piragua
2009
Customized tricycle-pushcart, sound, video, LEDs
Pimp My Piragua
Riding with the Classic Riders in the Bushwick Puerto RIcan Day Parade, 2019.
photo: Argenis Apolinario
Pimp My Piragua, 2009
Bushwick / Brooklyn, NY
Pimp My Piragua, 2009
Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Pimp My Piragua, 2009
Bushwick / Brookyln, NY
Pimp My Piragua, 2009
Knickerbocker Ave, Brookyln, NY