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Artists Ben Parry & Jacques Chauchat of Jump Ship Rat unite once again to
create a giant mobile water fountain. An endless waterfall 40 meters wide
pours from above as if from nowhere, circumventing a narrow boat and hiding
it behind a wall of water. Theatrical and playful the gliding water fountain
comes to grace the Albert Dock. Erupting from the dock, this is an aesthetic and
sensory delight that hypnotises the viewer into quiet contemplation, then passing
through tunnels and canals it disappears leaving only the still pool.
A Liverpool Commissions project; JSR U-51 celebrates the City's maritime history
through the element water. Water is the source of all life on earth, as such it has
appeared in culture across the ages as a metaphor for the cycle of life, genesis and
power; a spiritual symbol and an evocation of the natural world.
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