Swimming Cities

As a wrap-up for her summer long rafting-as-art experience on the Mississippi river with her fellow boat punx—known as the Miss Rockaway Armada—the elusive artist SWOON created the massive tour-de-force installation that is “Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea” currently on display at Deitch Projects ‘ new Long Island City space until October 19th. The go-to event of the summer, the installation mimics the makeshift junkyard composition of the Miss Rockaway rafts and functions as a fully developed walk-through environment. To up the ante, the entire Rockaway Armada raft fleet is moored at the docks just outside the gallery.

I can only dream that one day my illustrations will look that good nevermind the amazing backdrops all that other fantastically beautiful stuff.