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New York, NY - kc - Friday, September 23rd, 2005 : goo
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Today I decided to go search for Robert Smithson's posthumous artwork--a simulated slice of Central Park floating around on a barge. I actually didn't know about the Central Park part at the time. I did like it, though. I found it lolling in the waters off Battery Park City. There was something almost tender about that tugboat gently leading that forest about, sweet to be looking at the trees and being so aware of the waves, the rolling of the barge, the lapping of the water. The people next to me thought there should be a squirrel out there, or maybe a bench. I thought how over the course of the week the winds might blow all the trees bare. It was sort of a distillation of what I love about Maine, the forest in such close proximity to the water....
It's all out of focus, but I like the way the art barge gets all dreamy. That seems to be a working barge in the foreground. The tug, btw, is Rachel Marie.
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Peter: 23rd Sep 2005 - 14:10 GMT
heh! i had read about this, buit figured id miss any chance to see it. thanks for the post!!
jack: 23rd Sep 2005 - 15:35 GMT
at one time, long ago, i ate my lunch, looking out onto those murky waters. i thought this was my city. i guess we all feel the city is about some part of our lives. but times change and the city is home to new peoples and it becomes their city too and we move on. but think about this, all the waters on this planet were here since the earth was formed and the oceans keep changing and making new steam, which rises and then falls again as new rain. the oceans always were. there is no new water, just the same water and there you have new york.
GGP: 23rd Sep 2005 - 16:01 GMT
once there was a book-movie about sending a portion of forestland into outer space--covered in a dome, protected by a few chosen humans, after nature on earth had been irrevocably destroyed. this makes me think of that.
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