Heart Creek bunker is a never completed nuclear fall-out shelter that is situated below the slope of Mount McGillivray, in the Bow Valley of Kananaskis Country in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada.

Originally intended to safeguard classified documents and select military personnel, this bunker was constructed through series of controlled explosions that were detonated in order to carve out “rooms” and other secret passages inside the mountain. Constructed through violent means and in anticipation of a violent future, this bunker is a prefiguration of a war that did not come.

Heart Creek bunker now stands still, like a Cold War nightmare that remains crystallized inside an empty, dark room. What was once an exclusionary safe space has now turned itself inside out to become an open cave where anyone and anything is free to enter and disappear.