Joshua Allen Harris
Joshua Allen Harris is a New York City based artists that has risen to the challenge of showing the people of his city that there is a major issue of waste and recycling that needs to be managed. Harris uses pastil bags to create these inflatable polar bears that are paced over subway vents, that one the subways passes the temporarily inflate and assume its animal shape. Ultimately Harris’s main focus is on the discussion of climate change, specially on global warming. Over and over again, passerby’s watch this poor polar bear inflate and deflate, be born, and die. This gesture parallels the issue of climate control where our increasing green houses gases are allowing for the suns rays to pass through to our environment, but not allow them to escape causing the climate to rise, which in turn melts the environment where polar bears live.
Work Cited:
Its Not Easy Being Green 