A fitting memorial, Barry, bult to show, to be heard. Part of the aesthetic.
Doug
> On Jun 3, 2020, at 1:39 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> ... all a part of the project. Prescient words, Barry.
>
> Bill
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> On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 6:40 am, Barry Alpert <
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>> REMEMBERING THE RUNNING FENCE, REVISITED
>>
>> via Christo & Jeanne-Claude
>>
>>
>> We believe in “Once upon a time . . .
>> We promise it will not be another 33 years before . . .
>>
>> With the fence, you could still see the lonely tree . . .
>> whether you like it or not, you are all a part of the project,
>> well, it was not wholly illegal.
>>
>> We were illegal aliens for 3 years.
>> We were living in an illegal building.
>> We believed in “Once upon a time . . .
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 4-7-10 (1:34 PM)
>>
>> Drafted during both the screening of the new film by Wolfram Hissen about
>> the major mid-seventies work and the live Q & A afterwards with Christo.
>> One or more younger doubles of Jeanne-Claude amongst the audience created a
>> haunting resonance. Their son, Cyril, who has published 5 books of poetry
>> (including one entirely focused on his parents’ art), took a seat in the
>> front row. I should have talked to him, but he was invisible during the
>> after-event.
>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
When thugs were in power, educated people were the first
to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence
came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not
matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.
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in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale
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