Steven Jordan can spot a roadway stalker from miles away with some key context clues. First, he sees them pull up behind him in his rearview mirror. Then, they tend to fall in line behind him, like a shadow.
He takes that as a sign to flip on his rear window wiper. His rearview now clouded with quick streaks of yellow, the tailing driver he’s picked up puts on their blinker to pass him. Jordan grabs his cellphone and holds it pressed against his driver’s side window, hoping to catch the assailant in the act.
The majority of the time, the car following is doing the same — the two catch each other recording, Jordan smiles and flips a thumbs up. Drivers are always fascinated to see his yellow van, outfitted with black stripes, netted wings and waving stinger on the rear wiper blade out on South Carolina roads, Jordan said. “I love telling people that my ‘bee van’ is so much fun to drive, I never get my Lamborghini out of the garage,” Jordan joked.
Artist Steven Jordan stands with his daughter behind his bee-themed van outside his Mount Pleasant gallery space. When artist Steven Jordan first moved down to Charleston in the early ‘70s, he needed some sort of vehicle he could use to lug around his canvasses to art shows. He found his answer in a used $700 mail truck from Sullivan’s Island.
Jordan had his way with it. It became his first customized vehicle, and it was “cool as hell.” His mom made him curtains for the back, he put a mattress in the truck bed and.
