There is an unnamed and undefined community of pickup trucks, nomadic swaying beasts we tend to catch a glimpse of as we go about our daily routes. They are ingeniously crafted recycling-vehicles, home-spun by immigrant laborers that navigate all counties and side streets of the Bay Area, collecting massive amounts of society’s thrown away cardboard and metal. They swarm and cycle daily, packing cardboard boxes that are thrown out by restaurants, public businesses, or private homes, taking the discarded materials to 3 different recycling points in Bay View and Bayshore. Created and sculpted by immigrant workers, these old trucks are a new medium of survival. These immigrant laborers have become a class of unrecognized entrepreneurs because they create a vital and integral element of the urban ecosystem. In the Bay Area, these drivers are redefining and creating a new community that recycles. Troka Troka revitalized and customized these torn-down vehicles into colorful public works of art, highlighting the importance of their labor, and identify a meaningful and wanted partnership within the community. Troka Troka dialogues with aesthetics of Haitian “Tap Taps”, Columbian “Chivas”, and Puerto Rican “Guaguas” that are privately owned, but are colorfully modified or sculpturally customized to serve and operate as public transportation. It is a vernacular art expression of working class in Latino and African 3rd world countries, appreciated and loved by citizens of all social-classes, as well as tourists. Troka Troka comes from the same playful onomatopoeic naming as these other vehicles. My intent is to introduce this international and cultural phenomenon into the circulation of the Bay Area, creating a hide and seek excitement with its sightings around the Bay, shining light on these incredibly engineered structures, and to the service they provide to the community.