Punkterhi390 completed!

The first work for the Between Island summer exhibition has been completed! Artist Marco Dessardo has been working in AARK in May and has produced the sculpture Punkterhi390.

Punkterhi390 is a sculpture made out of two old plastic boats. It is a compact sculling and sailing boat made out of the crossing of two crafts: a broken Finnish Terhi 390 plastic motorboat from the 1970s, previously belonging to the legendary Korpoström farmer Reinhard Jansson, and a discarded Italian surfboard designed in the 1980s by yacht designer Andrea Vallicelli. Both were collected from the island of Korpo, recycled, and made into a sculpture. Propulsion is provided by a square sail and two single oar systems, a Chinese ancestral patented yuloh and an original godille from the French Brittany.

After successfull sea trials the work is now displayed at the Korpoström Archipelago Center, complementing the Plastic Garbage Project exhibition.

For more photos and a documentary of the process, please see Marco's site:
http://dessardo.free.fr/site/html/korpo_punkterhi.html
http://dessardo.free.fr/site/html/korpo_punkterhi_text.html