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henever I find an object or scene that incorporates a large flexible drape-like cover or large fabric material I photograph it. These subjects remind me of the environmental art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who make temporary art on a grand scale by wrapping objects or stretching fabric across large areas.
Before actually building a large-scale altered landscape, Christo always makes preparatory sketches, collages, drawings and scale models. Then the project is funded, permits approved, supplies acquired, and the installation is initiated. After completion of the wrapping or stretching or whatever, the actual art is only in existence for a short time. As this work is impermanent, photographs are made of the work prior to disassembly.
I simply skip all the preliminary planning and execution labor and go straight to the photography representing found conditions of analogous experience.
“You see, what is it that we do? We want to create works of art of joy and beauty, which we will build because we believe it will be beautiful. The only way to see it is to build it. Like every artist, every true artist, we create them for us.”- Jeanne-Claude
