Press
The Tobin: A Bridge for the Future?
by Jared Bown | GBH Culture Show
MASARY Principal Ryan Edwards sits down GBH Culture Show Host Jared Bowen to discuss the project.
Conversation includes what public art means for a city, addressing our experience of time through rhythm, and what that can do for our empathy towards our ecology with the Tobin Bridge.
Interview with Chelsea City Manager Fidel Maltez
by Chelsea Community Cable
MASARY Principal Ryan Edwards sits down with the City Manager of Chelsea to speak on what Eco-Rhythms and the Tobin Bridge means to the local community.
Artists want to turn the Tobin Bridge into eco-art
by Andrea Shea | WBUR
If you’ve driven over the Tobin Bridge, or at looked it from a distance, you probably know it isn't all that pretty. But the Boston-based collective MASARY Studios sees aesthetic potential in the double deck cantilever truss bridge connecting Chelsea and Charlestown.
The group wants to transform the Tobin into an illuminated public art work that engages with the environment.
MASARY presented its plans at the ClimaTech conference which kicked off Boston’s first Climate Week. The multi-media artists are known for engineering immersive experiences including Solstice at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Since 2021, MASARY has been developing their concept, titled "Eco-Rhythms," that would animate the Tobin with light that visualizes tidal patterns in the waterways around the bridge.
by David Abel | Boston Globe
The Tobin Bridge, a hulking, pea-green mass of steel that stretches more than two miles over the Mystic River from Boston to Chelsea, has long been considered a blight on the two cities’ skylines.
Now, local artists are proposing a $10 million project to dress up the 76-year-old span in an array of multicolored lights that aims to call attention to climate change and the region’s fragile ecology by echoing the rhythm of the tides, ocean currents, and rising sea levels.
Artists want to turn the Tobin Bridge into eco-art
by Andrea Shea | WBUR
If you’ve driven over the Tobin Bridge, or at looked it from a distance, you probably know it isn't all that pretty. But the Boston-based collective MASARY Studios sees aesthetic potential in the double deck cantilever truss bridge connecting Chelsea and Charlestown.
The group wants to transform the Tobin into an illuminated public art work that engages with the environment.
MASARY presented its plans at the ClimaTech conference which kicked off Boston’s first Climate Week. The multi-media artists are known for engineering immersive experiences including Solstice at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Since 2021, MASARY has been developing their concept, titled "Eco-Rhythms," that would animate the Tobin with light that visualizes tidal patterns in the waterways around the bridge.
Artists propose $10m lighting for Tobin Bridge
by Benjamin Cortez | Hoodline
The Tobin Memorial Bridge could one day double as a massive climate-themed light sculpture, if a group of Boston artists can line up the cash and clear the red tape. Their proposal would bathe the two-mile, 11,906-foot span between Boston and Chelsea in a shifting wash of bluish-green light, turning the hulking structure into a kind of giant “tide clock” that makes ecological rhythms visible around the harbor.
Artists want to turn the Tobin Bridge into eco-art
by Andrea Shea | WBUR
If you’ve driven over the Tobin Bridge, or at looked it from a distance, you probably know it isn't all that pretty. But the Boston-based collective MASARY Studios sees aesthetic potential in the double deck cantilever truss bridge connecting Chelsea and Charlestown.
The group wants to transform the Tobin into an illuminated public art work that engages with the environment.
MASARY presented its plans at the ClimaTech conference which kicked off Boston’s first Climate Week. The multi-media artists are known for engineering immersive experiences including Solstice at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Since 2021, MASARY has been developing their concept, titled "Eco-Rhythms," that would animate the Tobin with light that visualizes tidal patterns in the waterways around the bridge.
