first look: alex chinneck brings a massive, looping steel boat to sheffield's historical canal https://t.co/ncHEkGfBK0 pic.twitter.com/X1JPWFQ3ca
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The surreal artwork of Alex Chinneck has long been a Neatorama favorite. He creates large-scale sculptures that bend reality in astonishing and amusing ways, such as this canal boat with a looped body. It's on display on the historic Sheffield & Tinsley Canal in South Yorkshire.
Chinneck has worked on this project for eight years. It's a complex build process, as you can see from videos posted on Instagram. The boat is a floating monument to two hundred years of industrial history in the region. You can see more photos of it at Design Boom.
-via Messy Nessy Chic