California hills

Christo put up over a thousand umbrellas along Interstate 5 through the Grapevine in California in the Tejon Pass. He chose this beautiful yellow color to match the hue of dried grass in these hills during autumn. A companion piece of blue umbrellas was located in the terraced rice paddies in Japan because the water in the rice paddies would reflect the sky. Christo’s work is not only vibrant and captivating but involves much mundane administrative hurdle-jumping to arrange all the environmental permits and clearances needed to install an undertaking as momentous like this. Christo self-finances all his projects though selling his artwork. This happened 30 years ago  but it feels like yesterday and I cherish the memory of walking the trails into areas new to me and experiencing this totally unique art.