Aqua Dice

Max Mulhern, now residing in Paris, designed and launched a pair of Aqua Dice -- 8 ft. dice of plywood, painted red and blue and equipped with GPA systems into the Altantic Ocean last December, auspiciously on 12/12/12, from the Canary Islands.  The project reminded me of Mallarmé’s masterpiece Un coup de des jamais n’abolira le hasard, which happened to be one of his inspirations. To congratulate him, I wrote two pommes;

            Aqua Dice forever adrift
            now slow now swift
            ever chance's gift?

            Aqua Dice continues afloat
            ever more remote
            asymptote.

Check out the NYT article, “An Artis's Game of Chance on the High Seas,” and the YouTube “Aqua Dice Sets Sail.”