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Remember how an octopus dragged a whole sea bottom to New York ferry crowded with people? Not? Well, take your time to blame ignorance. In fact, such a tragedy, fortunately, never happened.
However, American artist Joseph Reginella decided immortalize this fictional incident in the form of a small of a monument depicting a passenger ship in the tentacles of a ferocious a cephalopod of colossal size.
This bronze monument weighing one hundred and fourteen kilograms was recently installed in Battery Park in Manhattan. Sculpture called to honor the memory of people who allegedly drowned in 1963 by the fault of the huge octopus, ferry Staten Island
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Having finished work on the monument, Reginella also began distribute tragedy-related flyers, released hoax documentary and created a site in detail telling about a fictitious incident. This, as expected, did its job: many tourists and Americans became serious be interested in the incident and even contact the transport Department of New York to find out if such an octopus for anyone is a danger these days.
The artist says: “The idea of this art project came to me by chance. My nephew and I sailed for Staten Island, and the child asked me all kinds of questions. For example, what would happen if the water was teeming with sharks. I replied that he didn’t know, but in the sixties he showed up here a huge octopus that dragged a whole ferry to the bottom. Would you see eyes of a boy! Then I realized how easy it is to cheat a gullible person who believes in all kinds of fables.
Notice how people approach my mystical to the monument, they take flyers, cautiously look at the water and leave. it very funny. I hope no one is offended when she finds out that no killer octopus has ever been here. ”
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