The old AstroWorld amusement park had a cornball Wild West section where everything had the sanitized, plastic feeling of such environments. Bill Davenport's cartoonishly oversized wagon wheel is like that: conjuring a version of collective memory while explicitly shunning full-on, gritty realism. It’s for anyone who has ever loved Dungeons & Dragons or the Renaissance Festival, or even just helped build high school theater sets. The wagon’s over seven feet in diameter, with crudely painted wood grain. Best of all, it's made from Styrofoam, so it weighs less than 10 pounds. It’s a wonderfully odd spoof, a monument to comedy.

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