Photo: Salinas

Salinas, California is the land of strawberries, lettuce, Steinbeck… and giant cutout figures of fieldworkers.

It started with roadside murals depicting baseball games, traffic accidents, and monstrous artichokes, but over the last ten years, artist John Cerney has accented the landscape of the Salinas Valley with his cutout portraits of farmers and fieldworkers. The figures are three times human size, and thus, easily visible from the comfort of your vehicle. These "giant cardboard cutouts on Highway 68" are a roadside attraction that you can really enjoy from the road.