Long-time residents of Chicago...

...might remember the

“Spindle,” a 50-foot-high metal spike onto which eight cars had been threaded like onions on a skewer. Erected in 1989, the sculpture — quite literally an eight-car pileup — stood for nearly 20 years in the parking lot of Cermak Plaza, a shopping center in Berwyn, Ill., near Chicago.

Its creator, Dustin Shuler, died on May 4 at his home in Inglewood, California.