I saw your magnificent reef, just weeks after talking with Hexayurt baron, Vinay Gupta (http://hexayurt.com/) about sweeping the high seas to gather component parts for hexayurt panels. He assured me that they would work – and panels could be pressed aboard ship and then delivered at site according to need.

I then got a visit from Alvaro Gorbato who does plastic recycling sculpture in Buenos Aires, i showed him your brochure, but Hordaland Kunstner Centre was closed on the Monday that we had available…

My work with the Institute for Non-toxic Propaganda struggles to make the political poetical – as, I would suggest, does your reef. The twist that has grown inside me is that while mass harvesting of sea refuse is not economic in itself — it has to be done on some level. What if one had free labour and even a heavily subsidised industry that stood for the collection?

It could successfully be supported by the prison industry. Initially, I was thinking that this would be an active prison sentence for economic criminals. They are more expensive to house than regular prisoners so the free capital of putting them at sea would be greater. Also, the added visual element of small hand and wind powered light-weight paddle harvesters that return to the mothership at night or during storms would mimic the small dories that were stacked aboard the large fishing vessels in my childhood. This fleet of repentant eco-economical criminals performing a duty towards future generations, could also have a powerful symbolic force.

Today’s thought (that had me unearth the seminar that I missed) was that it might be quicker to implement if it were fisheries criminality that was the first source for inmates. I am travelling to Iceland next month — it occurs to me that offering to manage the pilot project prototype might be something for my friends in the Pirate Party.

Otherwise your map of the Gyros suggests better locations for such floating penal colonies…. Shall we talk?