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Carved wooden hull, fabric sail, masts with rigging, small wire skeleton at the helm, suspended on a cotton-wool cloud, log base, work by Robert Bibeau

Dreamboat

Zeus thundered all at once and hurled his bolt upon the ship.
Homer, Odyssey, Book XII, v. 415

A sailing vessel roughly ninety centimetres tall, held above its base on two metal rods. The hull is a contorted piece of wood, root or split trunk, its prow rising into the silhouette of a wreck; slabs of grey stone are wedged along it as cargo. One large crescent sail of beige fabric, three small square sails lashed with twine. At the helm, a single skeleton of twisted wire topped with a pale bead; under the keel, a cloud of cotton wool stands in for the sea. A whole story holds in this volume: seafaring legend reduced to a crew of one dead sailor.

Dreamboat: wooden sailing vessel seen in profile, cream sails, its hull resting on a cotton-wool cloud held up by two metal rods above a log base, pale backdrop.
Dreamboat: seen in profile, the cream sail spread to the right, a small skeleton and ship's wheel by the mast, a cotton cloud above the hollowed wooden base.
Dreamboat: the whole sailing vessel on its cotton-wool cloud, the wooden hull set with grey stones, a spoked wheel, a small wire skeleton and an anchor hanging from a chain.
The wooden ship seen in a darkened room under blue light, pale fabric sails rising above the hull and the cotton-wool cloud glowing from underneath, its base outside the frame
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This is where the Calder kinship shows most clearly: a transposed Cirque, the same noble bricolage assembling materials into a miniature world the gaze leans into. Calder in light metal that floats; Bibeau in heavy wood that sinks.