The Gates are Going Up
I had a mid-day meeting on the Morningside campus today so rather than making two round-trip bus rides to my office I decided to work from home this afternoon. I walked home via 110th St. and saw that The Gates are going up.
One of the crew I talked to said they were easy to put up. A ball-joint thingy is put into the steel base. The vertical poles are aligned with the bases. Then the horizontal top that contains the rolled-up fabric is attached to the poles. The whole thing is then lifted by a crew of six and adjusted so the poles are vertical.
I'll post a few other views later. The fabric is to be unrolled starting about 8:00 a.m. Saturday.
Earlier views of The Gates.
Update: A few more pictures
What are those gates?
Posted by: erra | 07 February 2005 at 11:34 PM
Those gates contain a square of fabric that will be unveiled on Saturday. It is all part of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's
Posted by: joe | 08 February 2005 at 09:32 AM
OK. So it's an installation. I wondered what those little black platforms were on Sunday.
Excuse me, I'm fresh off the plane.
Posted by: Erra | 08 February 2005 at 08:06 PM
Ran into Christo and Jeanne Claude this afternoon, north park. Christo looked pensive, chewing his bottom lip. Not directly overseeing anyone, just in the vicinity. I told him I'd been watching progress, and he had good people doing good work, and that it was all gonna come off just great. He blinked and offered his thanks. Jeanne-Claude flashed me a brilliant smile and thanked me very intently and personally. I was ambivalent about this project, but now I'm hooked.
Even if the work crews remind me of moonies...they are all so eager and cheerful and chipper and so very very very white.....
at least thats what I've seen, your mileage may vary.
Posted by: Captain Clark | 09 February 2005 at 01:25 AM