In she goes. See it larger.
With some help from friends, designer Don Eyles today launched Fort Point Channel's latest floating artwork: A pyramid made of plastic blocks painted to look like the paving stones that used to line Boston streets.
Some of the neighborhood's toughest artists - and one little kid - raised the wooden beams on which the pyramid sat and it glided, more or less, into the green water below.
Eyles and a small boatload of folks then pulled the pyramid into the middle of the channel, about midway down the postal annex, and moored it in place.
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Art!
By Happy-go-lucky
Sun, 10/12/2014 - 7:35pm
A father to his children while passing through Fort Point, "Hey, look kids! There's some art floating in the channel!"
Art?
By anon
Sun, 10/12/2014 - 8:11pm
No...'aht'.....hey look kidz, there's some aht floatin' in the wadah!
Sphynxboat!
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 10/12/2014 - 7:37pm
We need a Sphynx Boat!
(Meanwhile, we found out where the trees went when they were done floating ... on a roof off of Congress Street.)
When they're between pieces
By vne
Sun, 10/12/2014 - 8:14pm
When they're between pieces they can roll out a floating "not art".
Why
By whyaduck
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 9:15am
that's certainly attractive.
Nice lines...
By teric
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 11:31am
on the dory.
USCG
By Tugboat Captain
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 11:39am
Would classify this as a hazard to navigation.
Have you been to that part of Fort Point Channel recently?
By adamg
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 12:10pm
Does the bridge even swing open anymore?
Yup, it opens
By merlinmurph
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 12:22pm
Saw it open about two weeks ago
I've been there
By anon
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 1:43pm
and it's opened quite often.
I like it!
By catt
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 11:43am
Cool addition to the channel.
I think that duck in the second picture is loving it
By Nancy
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 1:45pm
Which leads me to a childish yet important question. Do seagull droppings wash off of that material in the rain or is it going to be a splotchy mess.
Isn't this almost exactly the
By anon
Mon, 10/13/2014 - 5:03pm
Isn't this almost exactly the same as the pyramid that floated there for about 5 years until just a couple years ago ? Can't they think of something original or is this new pyramid supposed to be a replacement for that other one ? Who knows, maybe they will forget about this one and start building an even bigger floating pyramid when this one starts to seem mundane, just like the builders of the pyramids at Giza. Yet another example of public art I just don't get. We need more not-a-pipes and other such stuff with easily explainable concepts.
subversive
By teric
Tue, 10/14/2014 - 7:46am
message about rising seas and climate change? or just a another pyramid scheme
Polystyrene?
By anon
Tue, 10/14/2014 - 2:54pm
I like the concept but it sucks that he used polystyrene, which breaks down easily and isn't very biodegradable. So after 4 weeks or whatever, then what - into the landfill? The eco-friendliness of a project doesn't have to be of the top priority to an artist, but in this case it seems like his project will result in more pollution in the Fort Point channel, something it doesn't really need.
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