Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo: For many months, years thousands of people are sensitized. They fantasize how they think the work will look awful, and they would like to stop us. Or how the work will look great, if they like to help us, in a way. For many months or years in advance the people anticipate the work. Actively, not only mentally, but they come to public hearings, to all this variety, process of permits. Usually you do not have those things in the work of art. For a work of art you go to a museum, in a gallery. In architecture though, in urban planning, you have that. The fence was extending miles and miles. It's an excursion in the landscape, borrowing so many different qualities- from the water to the highway, the houses, the hills, the cattle, the subdivision. When we started to work at the project, it was basically to interlock all these different types of use of the land: from open land, farmers or ranchers land to the suburbia and small town.