TrailHead

This sculpture, made of vintage and discarded bicycles, is meant to resemble the famed Indianapolis author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and was inspired by a self-portrait sketch.  Local artist Jeff Laramore, who designed the piece, had planned to use upward of 20 or 30 bikes, arranged in the three-dimensional shape of a head. The Vonnegut-like features were to come from bike-wheel eyeglasses, and a cluster of bikes that would create a big curly coif. The installed sculpture uses the equivalent of six or seven bikes.

The sculpture is somewhat controversial in the neighborhood, as residents have expressed the desire to remove it and reconstruct it as originally planned.