Burning Man's 'Big Rig Jig' Artist Nails It on 1st Try — Q&A (SF Weekly)

The art at Burning Man this year collectively represented more than $400,000 in grants from the Black Rock Arts Foundation, plus countless of private contributions. The results were spectacular, but perhaps none more so than “Big Rig Jig,” a sculpture of two 18-wheeler trucks curving like caterpillars, one balanced on top of the other, rising forty-two feet into the sky. Mike Ross, 31, has brought sculptural works out to the annual desert festival for nearly ten years, but nothing on the scale of this fifty-thousand-pound tour de force. We caught up by phone while the Brooklyn-based artist was in San Francisco “finishing up some paperwork.” ... (continue reading)