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Floating Island

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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joey: smithson. cool.

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