Truck Crash

This is Big Rig Jig, a sculpture seen at this year’s Burning Man to represent the precariousness and danger of the oil economy. Maybe it’s still there, in the Black Rock Desert.



Here is an extract from the Wired article:

“Mike Ross, a New York sculpture artist, and a rotating crew of four to 16 friends, built the piece in an Oakland, California. (…)
Ross had conceived the project before hearing of Burning Man's "Green Man" theme this year. He and his crew repurposed decommissioned trucks they found while driving around the San Francisco Bay Area. "We drove the trucks right into the warehouse and started chopping them to pieces." (…) "When people stand under it and see a big truck hovering over you, it should give a sense of danger and fear and that something is wrong."