Sculptor gets laughs in New York with monuments to fake tragedies
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Sinking ferry
Reginella begins by choosing the date of the invented disaster with care -- and having it coincide with a real tragedy.
The ferry "sank" on November 22, 1963, the day president John F Kennedy was assassinated.
The elephant stampede took place on October 29, 1929, the day of the massive Wall Street crash.
The tugboat crew "vanished" on the night of July 13, 1977, when a huge blackout plunged New York into darkness.
The idea is that the enormity of the real events will make people think -- maybe -- that they somehow missed the other tragedy that he invented.
"That was my vehicle to kind of try to have people believe this," he told.
"And then I took the template -- I had such great success with this, it really went crazy -- that I continued the tradition."
The ferry "sank" on November 22, 1963, the day president John F Kennedy was assassinated.
The elephant stampede took place on October 29, 1929, the day of the massive Wall Street crash.
The tugboat crew "vanished" on the night of July 13, 1977, when a huge blackout plunged New York into darkness.
The idea is that the enormity of the real events will make people think -- maybe -- that they somehow missed the other tragedy that he invented.
"That was my vehicle to kind of try to have people believe this," he told.
"And then I took the template -- I had such great success with this, it really went crazy -- that I continued the tradition."