Mark, what an interesting essaying. I've read about the Gates, wished I
could see them, etc, but this is the first thing I've read that really gave
me a feeling of it it might be like to be there. Though of course I
wouldn't experience the emotional resonances that a New Yorker would.
Interesting point too on the destructiveness of the Christos' art. All of
it is about marking the planet (not always natural phenomena, of course,
didn't they wrap the Reichstag? Or did I imagine that?) in these grandiose
and absurd ways and so, I suppose, terribly human. I remember once seeing
on television an aerial view of some new roads winding over previously
fairly inaccessible mountains in France, and was struck by how it looked
like the planet had a bad case of worms. An alien looking from a space ship
might think Earth had been infested by some malignant organism. You're right
I think to point to the costs - not the money, but destructiveness: but how
much are those costs promoted as part of the artwork? Not much, by the
sound of things.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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