Driver's Seat is a 1994 galvanized steel sculpture by Don Merkt, installed along the Transit Mall in Portland, Oregon's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood, in the United States.
The galvanized steel sculpture by Don Merkt is installed at the intersection of Northwest 5th Avenue and Irving Street has been, along the Transit Mall in Old Town Chinatown.
It has described as a "large abstracted eye" that focuses on Portland Union Station's clock tower, "or more metaphorically time".
[2] Behind the eye's iris is a steering wheel and seat, accessible to visitors.
[1][2] Merkt has described the work as being about "social responsibility and that shared sensation of steering something greater than yourself through time, whether it be a bus, a family, a community or a culture.