photo: Florentijn Hofma
From artist's website:
The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn't discriminate people and doesn't have a political connotation. Link
From article:
The smile-provoking concoction that's responsible for this little shot of joy in a global-warming-heated summer, against a backdrop of war chaos and political cant, is a giant rubber duckie created by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. After wrestling with some air-inflating problems, his 105-foot-tall, 85-foot-wide "Rubber Duck" finally took to the sea (that is, to the estuary) last weekend - and that's no canard. read more
Link to Florentijn Hofma's website with more pictures