Video: Joshua Allen Harris Inflatable Street Sculptures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Imagine: you are walking down a New York street, and right in front of you a polar bear or a giraffe grows out of the ground! Do not rush to get scared, but rather slow down and be glad that you have witnessed a new street art - the creation of inflatable sculptures. The author of this idea is Joshua Allen Harris, and he creates his masterpieces from ordinary trash bags!
At first glance, it seems that there is a pile of rubbish on the ventilation grill of the subway. Honestly, Joshua Allen Harris hopes that this is what a passer-by will think. After all, the more unexpected and interesting will be the effect of the sudden appearance of a sculpture in this place. What makes a bunch of plastic suddenly turn into this or that animal, and then disappear again? The answer is simple, like everything ingenious. Joshua places his sculptures over the gratings of the city subway, a subway train passes below, raises a wave of air - and for a few seconds, for example, a giraffe appears on the grating!
Joshua's first and most popular sculpture was the polar bear. Many considered the author's work rather symbolic and sad, and even saw in the bear dying again and again a parallel with the problem of global warming.
True, sometimes Harris's creative sculptures are confused with the most ordinary garbage, which is a lot on the streets of New York, and the keepers of cleanliness intend to remove it.
In addition to the bear and the giraffe, Harris also created a monkey, the Loch Ness monster, and other funny animals and mystical creatures. Each of his sculptures dies and is born thousands of times, and their life lasts exactly as long as it takes for a subway train to travel below.
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