This Piece of Ocean Trash Criticizes Ocean Trash
Nearly three years ago, George Boorujy took a trip to Wolfe’s Pond Park, on the southeastern edge of Staten Island in New York City, and threw a bottle into the ocean.
On a cold, sunny day this February, artist Brigitte Barthelemy, her husband, and their schnauzer, Elton, went for a walk on a beach in Royan, France, some 3,600 miles as the tuna swims from where Boorujy watched his bottle float away. And there it was: barnacle-encrusted and seawater-clouded, but not yet so mucky as to obscure an inscription reading “New York Pelagic” and two tightly rolled cylinders of paper held within.
