Area Graphic Designers Have Better Senses Of Humor Than Conceptual Artists

We haven’t seen Robert Smithson’s posthumous Floating Island in person–mommy told us to stay inside when it gets cold–but we’ve been somewhat following its trajectory (ha, get it?). Which is why we were tickled to read that someone had done something really funny about it. And made a miniature Christo and Jeanne-Claude gate. And put it on a motorboat. And followed the Floating Island boat, the Rachel Marie. From the Times story:

Approaching the Rachel Marie on its starboard side was a small motorboat, affixed to which was a replica of one of the saffron-colored gates created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that dotted Central Park last winter.

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