The Gates

Christo and Jeannne-Claude's Gates opened yesterday in Central Park. I got there early so that I could see some of them being unfurled. The fabric was rolled up on long cardboard tubes and secured at the top of the stucture by a polyfiber cocoon with a velcro seam sealer ending in a loop. To loose the fabric, the velcro was rended from its two parts by pulling on the loop with a long pole with a hook on the end.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude make no pretentions about an intellectual context for their work. That's part of that I love about it. It's purely about creating a temporary, joyful environment.