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Baltimore cyclist collects lost hubcaps and turns them into art

(16 Dec 2025) ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore - 11 December 2025 1. Various of Snoopy sculpture made from hubcaps 2. Hubcap artist Barnaby Wickham with his bike 3. Wickham carrying a hubcap he has found 4. Wickham storing his newly collected hubcaps in his garage 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaby Wickham, hubcap artist: “Part way through the year, I was like, what are we going to do with all these things? So that's when I started to think about maybe we could create some sort of sculpture. So last year I made a couple wreaths out of lots of hubcaps — hundreds of hubcaps. And then this year I wanted to do something different so I made two. I made the Snoopy that's right outside the house here and then I also made a huge fish.” 7. Various of Barnaby collecting hubcaps 8. Phone with map showing hubcaps collected in 2025 UPSOUND (English) Barnaby Wickham, hubcap artist: "And then all of these green circles are all locations of hubcaps that I found and picked up." 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaby Wickham, hubcap artist: “So when I started doing this people heard that I was doing it and they started to get excited about it and started to send me locations of hubcaps. So they would send me a pin on a map by text or sometimes they would send a photo with the street location." 10. Various of Barnaby biking around the city to collect hubcaps 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaby Wickham, hubcap artist: "This whole journey has really caused me to get out to a lot of places that I wouldn't necessarily get to because I get these tips and it's taking me to a place that I've never been before." ASSOCIATED PRESS Glen Arm, Maryland - 11 December 2025 12. Various of hubcap fish ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore - 11 December 2025 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Wickham, wife: "He's never done art before. That just kind of came about from his biking and seeing hubcaps. And two years ago, he just said, 'I'm going to collect hubcaps,' and I was going, "'Really? Where are we storing them?'" 14. List of hubcaps collected in 2025 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Wickham, wife "He'd already been bringing home treasures from his biking escapades, and now all of a sudden there was hubcaps. 16. Barnaby looking at collection of car emblems 17. Barnaby going through the hubcap collection 18. Pan of garage where Barnaby stores his collection of hubcaps STORYLINE: LEADIN: Cyclist Barnaby Wickham has collected more than 700 lost hubcaps, mostly on his bike rides around Baltimore. They have inspired a quest to turn litter into big, eye-catching art, including a giant fish and a head of the Peanuts character Snoopy. STORYLINE: Loveable character Snoopy the dog, larger than life - and made out of hubcaps. This piece of outdoor art is the work of Barnaby Wickham. The head of Snoopy is 16 feet (4.9 meters) tall and about 21 feet (6.4 meters) wide. He's been collecting lost hubcaps for two years and picks them up on his bike rides around Baltimore. So far, he's found more than 700 of them. “Part way through the year, I was like, what are we going to do with all these things? So that's when I started to think about maybe we could create some sort of sculpture. So last year I made a couple wreaths out of lots of hubcaps — hundreds of hubcaps. And then this year I wanted to do something different so I made two. I made the Snoopy that's right outside the house here and then I also made a huge fish,” says Wickham. His unusual hobby has caught the attention of members of the community. Now lots of people let him know if they spot a hubcap to add to his collection. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...