This piece, called Big Rig Jig by Mike Ross, was constructed from two discarded tanker trucks and displayed at Burning Man, an art festival in the Nevada Desert, in 2007. The structure not only towers 42 feet in the air, but is also designed to allow a person to enter through the cab and climb through the tankers to emerge on a platform at the top. An incredible feat of art, engineering, and playground technology rolled into one.
Big Rig Jig by Mike Ross was intended to show the creative spirit of truck drivers. As pervasive as 18-wheelers and delivery trucks are in our way of life, I rarely get to see them transformed into art pieces. I enjoyed some of the ways artists are transforming the backbone of America to make it more beautiful, or at least more interesting.
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