All Along the Biketower [Bikes]

The Tower of Babel. The nice Pyramids. The Leaning Tower of Pisa. That pantheon of epic structures wasn’t compete until Cyclisk: a 65-foot tall, 10,000-pound obelisk comprising about 340 bicycles, a tricycle, and a healthy disregard for proportion.

The sculpture, which resides in Santa Rosa, California, was built by artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, and value $37,000 to build. That’s large number of Schwinn.

While Grieve says that the message is up to the viewer, but due to the fact that the project was funded by Nissan and in a local rife with car dealerships? It’s tempting to think about it more as a mausoleum than a celebration. [ Wired ; Photo credit: Mario Parnell]

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