This trike would fit right into a remake of The Shining, only instead of being ridden by the bowl-haired Danny Torrance, it would be piloted by a stretched, nightmarish cross between a creepy child and a psychedelic, broken-backed dachshund. The movie would, of course, be directed by Terry Gilliam.
The tricycle is in fact a sculpture by Dallas, Texas-based artist Sergio Garcia, and would likely be no less useful than a normal bike in that big, car-friendly state. The 50-inch-high piece is titled ?Its not always easy to tell whats real and whats fabricated? and could probably be ridden if you sat backwards and didn?t mind people staring, pointing and murmuring ?Red rum, red rum? over and over.
I wonder if Garcia would be interested in a commission. I snapped the frame of my bike at last weekend?s Bike Bolo World Championship in Berlin. I imagine fixing it up with a vertical version of Garcia?s looping tube, arranged around me like a big, skinny steel forcefield stopping any other player for getting near the ball.
Trike Sculpture [Sergio Garcia via the Giz]
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