The Love Love was built to look as if it is sinking
French artist Julien Berthier has designed a fully functional boat
to look as if it is sinking. The 6.5m (21ft) yacht was cut in
half with a new keel and motor added so it remains in the sinking
position while being fully functional. He describes it as "the
permanent and
mobile image of a wrecked ship that has become a functional and
safe leisure object." Decks inside the hull parallel the water
line.
Berthier has taken the boat (or should we say half-a-boat) across
the English Channel to London and has toured it around Europe
, getting plenty of offers of assistance from unwitting good Samaritans,
who would presumably be either very annoyed or rather bemused
by the contraption.
The designer and artist designed and built the floating installation
in 2007. He named his creation Love Love.
Ha! I would have named it “Half Wit,” or maybe “Half
Ass” bd |