"Costa Rican Taxi"
2nd-hand hand-made wooden 4x4 and acrylic paint, France 2005
The only things I did on this piece are the license plates and the yellow signs on the roof and doors, shown in detail below. The 4x4 itself I found and bought for 5 euros at an Emmaus second-hand store in Pau, France. It was already painted red with all the Toyota Land Cruiser stuff, which immediately reminded me of Costa Rican taxis and gave me the idea of transforming it into one. The town on the door sign, "Puriscál", is 40 kms from San Jose and 20 from Villa Colón. The 20 kms of road connecting Villa Colón and Puriscál are beautiful. It's a winding mountain road with hanging cliffs, pastures, forests, fog, tobacco and sugar cane fields, gorgeous views of the central valley below, and the Quitirrisi indian reservation. For me, it's a Ferrari commercial material road. My brother's inlaws, the Jara-Corrales family who once lived in Guayabo de Mora and are now living in San Juan de Puriscál, own one of those Land Cruisers, but its neither red nor a taxi. I've ridden on it along that road many times with Don Beto and Doña Ofelia.... at 40 kms an hour off course.
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