Inflatable bin liner art

Joshua Allen Harris makes* sculptures out of bin liners. He arranges them to look like litter discarded on the street but they are attached to subway air vents in the pavement and, when a train goes through underneath, the air pressure inflates and animates the sculpture. Just brilliant. I wish we had pavement level air vents like this in the UK; I’d love to see the faces on the passers by when one of these rises up in front of them. I particularly like the one that looks a bit like Cloverfield.

*or perhaps “made”, none of this is particularly recent and I suspect he may have moved on artistically. Fair enough of course, no artist wants to be trapped doing the same sculpture over and over again (except Antony Gormley perhaps[1]), but a pity none-the-less; I can’t help feeling this idea has some mileage left in it.

1. Oh alright, that’s not fair. His early stuff is quite different and I love the way his “Feeling Materials” series looks like a pencil scribble made 3D, but, enough with the bodies now: srsly, move on!