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    This Piece of Ocean Trash Criticizes Ocean Trash

    by Brandon Keim Jun 14, 2016 4 minutes

    Nearly three years ago, George Boorujy took a trip to Wolfe’s Pond Park, on the southeastern edge of Staten Island in New York City, and threw a bottle into the ocean.

    On a cold, sunny day this February, artist Brigitte Barthelemy, her husband, and their schnauzer, Elton, went for a walk on a beach in Royan, France, some 3,600 miles as the tuna swims from where Boorujy watched his bottle float away. And there it was: barnacle-encrusted and seawater-clouded, but not yet so mucky as to obscure an inscription reading “New York Pelagic” and two tightly rolled cylinders of paper held within.

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