swaddling clothes

what would you choose to wrap if the choices were endless?

the other day i caught the christo and jeanne claude exhibition at the NS art gallery, the day before it was to close (sorry, by now you have missed it). a good friend and i ran into the basement show from a haligonian tempest- all the fabric implied quickly dried us. i have never seen a c&jc 'piece' in person...it really isn't the point i guess...the process is...

the show was much more breathtaking than you might predict a show of relics to be: video footage of the 28 month building of the 'curtain between two mountains' in colorado- a mammoth piece that withstood all of 28 hours of gusty weather (gutsy weather?); photo-quality pastel sketches of the 7500 saffron gates in nyc; many tactile mockups of wrappings- of trees, offices, and the german reichstag.

if c&jc were to ask for some new material, i would suggest wrapping up the fredericton trainbridge, in a rich velvet like the upholstery of old trains or theatre curtains...i would suggest the wrapping to take place over the autumn and end sometime when the river was frozen white, the trees bare, and the bridge like a lipsticked smile across one stark shore to the other.