Located in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment District, this public art commission entitled “Speech Bubble” is an ever-changing public art show. Standing 20 feet tall by 17 feet wide, the sculpture was built of a structural steel frame, with aluminum fascia trim paneling to enclose an enormous LED display screen.
The artists transformed a standard LED screen into a speech bubble through the clever use of a custom-designed and shaped frame. While the shape of the sculpture is a speech bubble as seen in cartoon and comic book drawings, the content of the work plays back abstract animated videos – an ironic commentary on the spoken and unspoken. Cantilevered atop an inverted triangle that forms the neck of the speech bubble, the screen becomes part of an animated sculpture: its unique structure unifying form with function.
Sculpture Artist: Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins & James Khamsi
Sculpture Video Content: Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, Dan Browne, Gordon Douglas Ball, Talia Shipman
Art Consultants: Public Art Management
Engineering: DPL Engineering
Client: Pinnacle International / Mondiale Development Ltd.