On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I think the Martians would probably be impressed, actually. (By the gates, not by the schools.)
I wished I was in New York to be able to see it. When Christo did the Reichstag in Berlin I missed it, and everyone who was there said it was amazing.
The photographer Spencer Tunick staged a shoot in Montreal a few years ago. His specialty at the time was shooting hordes of naked people. I would have participated if I had been available, and I followed the story with fascination. 2000 volunteers showed up at 6:00 am on a chilly Sunday to pose, draped across the steps of Place des Arts. His photographs are at once chilling, warming, shocking, gorgeous, barely erotic (if at all) and anything but ignorable. I was amazed at my own reactions to his various works, all of which have the people's faces not looking toward the camera, so we are not as aware of their individuality or personalities. Yet the texture of so much naked human flesh in an otherwise deserted urban setting got me to thinking in so many different ways, I still can't get over it. Some people saw the Holocaust, some saw a huge, happy orgy, some saw Armageddon, some saw the Garden of Eden, some saw a nuclear aftermath, some saw pornography, and some just saw texture divorced from the human materials.
I wish I could see the Christo installation. There's something about a large canvas that's striking to me. Big painting, big sculpture, big orchestra, all of it. My wife tells me it's a guy thing. 8-)
Christopher
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