This bear though is an inflation that doesn't immediately threaten because he's an animated sculpture created from garbage bag detritus off the streets of New York. The artist;Joshua Allen Harris has exploited the possibilities of subway exhaust. Using only tape and garbage bags, he creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate.
Harris recalls:
While I was walking on the street, I happened to notice a piece of orange construction tape rising from a subway exhaust grate. It just glided skyward, almost asking for attention. I then became interested in what that wind could do and how I could work with it
Thus the artist invites the viewer into a world where life and death cycles in time with the public transport system and I particularly like the blue figure waving the passing foot traffic by in this video or a goblin on the wall called Cling,
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Friday 18 July 2008
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