The states of the SS cotopaxi

Replica of the SS cotopaxi from image at the scale 1.108e in the 3 states; present, disappeared and reappeared, wood and metal, 100 x40 cm each, 2017.

In december 1925, steamship SS Cotopaxi, carrying coal to Havana, disappeared off the cost of Charleston, South Carolina. No distress signal was sent and the boat vanish without a trace. In 2015, some articles became viral after pretending that she reappeared near the cost of Cuba and being tow by national coast guards. Invoking the Superposition Principle from quantum physics — well know by the story of the both dead and alive cat by E.Shrödinger — the ship is replicated from image at a smaller scale and appeared both present, disappeared and reappeared.