If art can imitate life, can it imitate a car? In Vicksburg, yes.

Lesley Silver and fellow artists sealed the deal Sunday afternoon as they glued small objects, Altoid breath mint tins and Mardi Gras beads among them, to the Toyota Corolla stationwagon Silver has driven since 1993.

“This car will be a perpetual state of morphing into something,” said Silver, who has owned the Attic Gallery art studio and store on Washington Street for 39 years.

Silver invited any and all to the gallery to help in the transformation.

“This car is another extension of Lesley and her art,” said Randy Jolly, another Vicksburg artist, who is director of the Gore Gallery at Mississippi College. He painted a hubcap and attached it to the silver car, right there with the praying mantises and bottle caps.

“This is really about the community participating and recycling and rethinking objects that we feel are sacred by making something with them,” Silver said as she invited the community to continue to add to the car’s new detail.