{ One last point. Several people--on another list I think it was Nick
{ Piombino--have pointed out that it was some sort of miracle that there was
{ no grafitti, as if people were too much in awe or maybe the materials
{ weren't suitable for spray paint. Nope--it was because the gates were very
{ well patrolled by police, park rangers, and volunteers, not to mention the
{ huge crowds that allowed for little solitary vandalism. Myself, I don't
{ think that this was a good thing--I would have liked more evidence of
{ interaction, and I would have liked to watch the gates evolve interactively
{ with the city. As it was, the only change was that the cloth began to look
{ a bit shopworn.
{
{ Mark
Well, actually, there was a "little solitary vandalism"--names were written
on gates (but quickly wiped off), and a couple folks managed to cut
heart-shaped swatches out of a piece of fabric or two (which Jeanne-Claude
declined to consider vandalism). And don't forget that taxi that had some
interaction with one of the gates.
Also, I don't think that Lynda and I covered as much of the terrain as you
did, Mark, but we did get up to the park often enough (three or four times,
depending on how we count them) to see The Gates in various weathers,
times of day, and aspects, but never once saw any of those "omnipresent"
apparatchiks.
Hal
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