Tesla model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue, by Mexican sculptor Chavis Marmol
This looks so sick, I had to share it
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/chavismarmol
Bluesky : @chavismarmol.bsky.social
No Maggie, not Aztec, Olmec. Ol-mec.
I usually don't like Avant-garde art, but this one speaks to me.
THIS is the Mexico everybody loves!
The Louvre should display the fine artwork. Just paint a fucking swastika on the Tesla.
Is that giant round stone face supposed to represent an ancient stoic warrior? 🗿 Now it does.
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Now I wonder, though, did he buy a Tesla for this? Or did already have a Tesla and thought of a creative way to get rid of it?
What's going through my mind is a scene from Straight Outta Compton:
"They're burning all your CD's!" (referencing a large pile of burning CD's from their new album).
"Yeah, but they still bought them, didn't they?"
For context, he did this a year ago.
Could not find the answer to that but I don't think so, given what he has to say about the installation. Also I don't see why he wouldn't get an already wrecked car for dirt cheap to do that.
"In the end this glorified object with all that technology is just that; it is just a product of a capitalist system when in reality what really matters is where we come from, what we are, and what we have been, generation after generation."
Edit : the car in the picture even shows clear signs of wreckage, e.g the hood with giant scratches all over even though it looks like the head wouldn't even have touched it
[slaps forehead] Dammit, I could have just taped a banana onto it!
This activated a fragment of a thought that I haven't had in decades, wow. I'm not even sure I remember what this is from.
Legends of the Hidden Temple
the dude looks more badass than his statue
He does. There's also a pic without him on his insta and I've gotta say it does lose a few badassery points
Wow Spelunky 3 graphics are great.
what we all came for
When you misjudge the Thwomp timing
I hope it made the noise when it happened.
Badass photo
I'm not even anti-Tesla (see my previous comments), but yea this photo is badass.
The Olmecs or Olmec were an early known major Mesoamerican civilization, flourishing in the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from roughly 1200 to 400 BCE during Mesoamerica's formative period.
Awesome, thank you, I'm not very familiar with ancient American history.
My brain is so poisoned that all I heard when I saw this image was "Markus Wulfhart" army movement noise
Artist page https://www.instagram.com/chavismarmol
Thanks, I'll add it to the post
Artist statement: “🖕🗿”
Is that Señor Xtapolapocetl?
It's an extravagant piece of art. A mad, unthinkable, utterly impossible piece of art! A frabulous, grabulous, zip-zoop-zabulous piece of art!
I bloody love this comment
Nice. Symbolism on point. 👌
I love the fact that the car will continue to degrade, but the head will remain.
Bestest use of a Tesla
Spelunky 2 is too hard even for Tesla
His face says "it had it coming..".
Mario Brothers strikes again
More of these visuals please. Love it.
Love it. 💪
This dude seriously just killed Olmec from legends of the hidden temple?
Now that's interesting!
now this is art!
Hope the underside of the statue didn't got damaged in even the smallest of ways.
EUGH!
Nominative determinism strikes again!
People are so dumb, the effect of doing this its only one: You lost a car...
Clearly this guy with very anti capitalist discourse had to buy a $40k car just to wreck it instead of getting an already totaled one from a junkyard, that is the only explanation that makes sense here.
Oh yeah, he sure showed Elon. 🙄🙄🙄
Do you genuinely think that was this, or any, artist's intentions?
This is the same energy as conservatives burning Nikes because they’re woke.
Elon already got the money for that car it doesn’t matter what happens to it now.
Or he could have just bought a wrecked car that was going to a scrapper anyway.
Yeah exactly. There's zero chance that artist bought a new Tesla just to wreck it lol