Trans Am Totem
The Trans Am Totem created by Marcus Bowcott was put up in 2015. The Trans Am Totem is a sculpture made of five scrap cars stacked on a cedar tree. It is a ten metre high and twenty-five thousand pound sculpture located on Quebec Street and Milross Avenue. This sculpture symbolizes practicality and luxury, necessity and waste. We can see this from the comfortable BMW, and the workhorse Civic. By having this sculpture in plain sight, Bowcott wants us to remember the responsibilities we have to prevent global warming and further environmental degradation. Bowcott focuses on making sculptures exposing the hidden darkness in our society. He reveals the emotional bankruptcy that is the result of our need for cheap consumer goods and the fact that these cheap consumer goods are usually produced by unseen and unfortunate people on other continents. He made this sculpture to hopefully remind people of our ongoing contributions to global warming and environmental degradation. Doing this he hopes that people will stop and change their ways to help stop global warming.