---
title: "Hero of the Day: The Metalhead"
description: "A postmodern whammy bar in New Jersey."
date: "2015-10-29"
modified: "2015-10-29"
authors:
  - name: "Jonathan Schultz"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jonathan-schultz"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/design/683/hero-of-the-day-the-metalhead"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Hero of the Day: The Metalhead

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**Jonathan Schultz/TheDrive.com**

This guy, who has realized the utter temporality of a first-generation Ford Explorer. Attributed to the Israeli-born sculptor [Shlomo Harush](<https://www.harushshlomo.com/>), this piece is permanently installed in the parking lot of [Mana Fine Arts](<https://www.manafinearts.com/>), a towering storage-cum-gallery complex in the postindustrial wilds of Jersey City. Shlomo has transformed the [notoriously tippy SUV](<https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rollover/etc/before.html>) into an off-kilter study of riveted metal. We wouldn’t know a postmodern critique of American exceptionalism if it bit us in our Bangladesh-sewn Levi’s, but for elevating the mundane to the sublime, we have but one word for Shlomo: Hero.

## Author
Deputy Editor. Previously held editorial positions at BBC.com and the New York Times. Brakes for whoopie pies.

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