The volunteers were the folks with the green tennisballs at the end of
sticks. They were mostly unobtrusive.
But maybe the relative lack of grafitti was because the crews were in awe.
I left out one question, believe it or not. The Christos say that the gates
will be "recycled." What does it mean to recycle nylon?
Maybe for their next project they could drape all the people in the world
who lack adequate clothing.
Mark
At 12:34 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>{ 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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