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Mannequins in floaty balls
By adamg on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 9:27am
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Floaty balls
Does anyone know what these floaty balls are for?
They Catch Would-be Escapees
"I am not a number - I am a human being!" - No.6
I was thinking that!
Yes, they're the Children's Museum's latest safety measure - just in case any kids fall in the water.
Some people seem to have spent way too much time thinking about Rover, however.
"Walking on Water" by Lisa Greenfield
a local protest artist - she carpeted a walkway with grass earlier this year protesting fort point channel construction. that's all i can find.
The whole thing is kind of
The whole thing is kind of disturbing, actually. The mannequins are weirdly splayed out, and they look really uncomfortable.
Plus I keep expecting the seagulls to get bored and try to pop the floaty balls.
floaty balls (II)
Yes, sure, but what the hell are they? For serious.
Art
I know there's not breadboard with wires and LEDs sprouting from it, but I suspect these, like many unexplained phenomena in Boston, are someone's idea of ART.
Now somebody shoot them before they blow up.
My best guess is that they
My best guess is that they have something to do with Fort Point Open Studios this weekend. Tons of people are going to descend on the neighborhood looking for living-room appropriate art; maybe someone decided it was the perfect time to do an installation.
If they're still there tomorrow, I'll poke around and see if I can find an answer.
Was that Patrick McGoohan in Fort Point Channel this morning?
More mannequin floaty-ball photos.
Via Miss M, who writes:
name & artist
Walking on Water. Unfortunately, her website doesn't have any info about the idea behind the installation, so maybe it really is an homage to The Prisoner.
More info from the artist's site
If you click on the photo at the link in Miss M's last comment, you'll find this:
"Evoking Narcissus as he kneels toward his reflection, the installation
Walking on Water has 6 bubbles in which figures float
casting a reflection in the Channel as they sway with the breeze
and glide across the water with the changing tide."
For what it's worth ....