Rescue Bubble, 2009

Tomer Diamant - Toronto, Canada

Sculpture

As the humble foot soldiers of disposable infrastructure, traffic pylons solicit an indifferent compliance in our daily navigations of the city. Here however, hundreds are amassed into a single glowing beacon of urgent concern.

On the verge of massive stimulus spending, governments are heralding fast-track infrastructure investment as the panacea for current economic woes. Speculative conditions that emerge under such massive spending can stifle rather than foster creative change. With schedules compressed to feed a shovel-ready hunger, unsustainable models can be entrenched rather than challenged. 

This installation represents an attempt to link imagery from the world of Sci-Fi; that of the solitary, ominous alien vanguard with our current speculative economic reality in order to crystallize a feeling of a looming presence; a foreign, spore-like organism at once familiar and foreign, promising and dangerous.

Has the Rescue Bubble emerged to save our world or devour us all?

Tomer Diamant is an Architect/Artist based in Toronto.

Suitable for all ages

Thank you to:
L.E.S. and Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design (UofT)