I read something about the project last spring, and it mentioned that they'd
be hiring an army of unskilled folks to actually set up the gates.  So I
found their website and signed up!  It's great fun.

The interesting thing about their work is that in a way it's not that this
particular installation - or any of the others - is that particularly
splendid, but that they have the wherewithal (mostly she has the
wherewithal) to actually make them happen.  We could all have cool ideas,
but she's got chutzbah and guts and persistence and immense networking
ability and she can convince people to give them the permits they need to do
this.  And find a way to pay for it.

Oops, um, well, it's almost Friday!  And vanagons are works of environmental
art too, so doesn't that make it relevant?

Joy

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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon

For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy

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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: bueses [mailto:bueses@earthlink.net]
:::Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:17 PM
:::To: Joy Hecht; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: vanagon repair place around Asbury Pk NJ?
:::
:::.........And I'm
:::> in New York for five weeks working my butt off installing gates in
:::Central
:::> Park - see http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.html for explanation
:::.......
:::
:::
:::Coool! How'd you get a job w/ Christo???
:::
:::Bus related content- I think of bus related installation art pieces when
:::driving my 84 Westy!
:::
:::I am thinking of a piece where I line up Vanagons in a continuous bumper
:::to
:::bumper pattern from the east coast to the west coast & cover them w/ a
:::continuous latex fabric!!????? Grin Are there that many vanagons left?
:::
:::Tom Buese-love Christo's work