I know many of us have been questioning the items that have been crowding behind Fain. There’s the car on stilts and the seemingly abandoned car and engine around the corner from it, and if you haven’t noticed, they take up quite a bit of space.

The elevated car is an art piece from the Japanese artist Hironari Kubota that the university’s Visiting Artist Fund supported. He created the car so that it would spin in the air. That is super cool, but my question is, is it ever going to spin again?

If the car isn’t spinning anymore, is it still worth keeping up? I’m not convinced. Once it’s not spinning anymore, the magic of it is gone; it doesn’t seem like art anymore.

Aside from that, the car around the corner and the engine along with it appear to serve no purpose. They just sit there and confuse people. It looks as if something should be done with it, yet nothing has.

I truly appreciate the art aspect of it all, but there’s no need to leave the excess lying around. It creates an unwanted mess that causes the grounds to look bad.

Students have been complaining about the overcrowding of that area now that the cars have taken up so much space. This is a university, not a used car lot, right? Kubota’s work is amazing, but it seems to take up a lot of space and serve no purpose anymore. If the car continued spinning long after Kubota left, maybe the art would be more appreciated.

I’m not trying to act like I know the future plans of the art department, and I’m definitely not trying to downplay the incredible work Kubota did, but I just wish there was a better way to use the other car that’s just sitting there. There are ways that the car can be used to better the art department.

An option for the car that Kubota didn’t use is to utilize the car for a fundraiser. Whoever has control over what happens to the car could set it up as a car smash fundraiser. Give students the opportunity to pay to smash the car.

At least the car wouldn’t be sitting there not fulfilling any purpose. If the car isn’t moved soon, I can just picture it chilling there for who knows how long. Something should be done with it so that it has a benefit other than just the grounds looking better.

Who is in charge of the extra car removal anyway? Is it the art department’s job to remove it? The facilities management? Whoever it is should put that at the top of the priority list. I wonder why it hasn’t already been dealt with. There should be more care concerning the way the campus looks all over, not just in well known areas.

Art is something that should be appreciated, but was this project worth the time, money and space it takes up?