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PAUL FRISBIE: THE BOAT HOAX
A few years ago Chicago inventor and artist Matt Binns created a piece for
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. It appeared to be an outrigger
sailing craft built for use on the open ocean. And strangely, some of the
gear looked as if it might not have been designed for the same kind of
hands that you'd find attached to a human being.
The museum display explained that the boat had been found when it washed
ashore without an occupant. But it did contain a lot of curious odds and
ends. The stuff not only came from different places around the planet, it
came from different centuries as well. The collection suggested that the
boat's owner had been everywhere, and that he -- or it -- had lived for a
very, very long time.
Alongside the exhibit was a video display featuring -- you guessed it --
Paul Frisbie masquerading as the tweedy, eccentric college professor who
was trying to make sense of all the data.
Many people swallowed this thing hook, line and sinker. But Paul Frisbie
is no tweedy college professor, and there never was any ageless alien
sailing the seven seas in that unique vessel. In fact, here are some
photos of the boat under construction at Matt Binns' studio.
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