Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence

>> Here is

the fence,

that is 18 feet

high and 24 and-a-half
miles long.

An equivalency
that's going from

a museum in the center of

DC to Dallas Airport.

If somebody can
get the idea of

the monumentality they
are thinking big,

these people are
not thinking small.

Then they get the idea.

>> I just knew
that this was in

my opinion from
what I had been

a part of and all that was

happening in the
area at that time.

The most important
thing and

the habit come to
California and they

have him working
on the West Coast.

Something not to be missed.

That's why I
always think, is

Harry Cristo coming from,

where he's coming from.

Have the insight to
be able to see how

he could construct
something

that would go on like

this ribbon of light
that he talks about.

Because when you're up in

the plane you can see
from the photographs.

If you get back,

its just this enlisting
and it always just

guides with the contour

and if I was like drawing,

and I wanted to

create something that
was going around.

This is exactly what he's

done with the fence.

People don't forget
it once they see it.

>> The first title was

divide but not very
friendly title.

We decided that fence
would be better.

But when you put a
Running Fence, basically,

our fence was really
running not on closing

anything is running
from east to west.

We tried to do project
involving the use of

the land from
near the ocean,

going inland to the
rancher's land,

going to suburbia, and

finally arriving to the
nearest small town.

Defense is not
the work of art.

The work of art is
all togetherness.

Meaning that the hills,

the one tunnel fence is not

the work of art
or two or three

of two thousand panels

is not a work of art.

They're designed to
go through these

very same way
ordinary landscape.

But suddenly energized by

underlying invisible
topography of the land.

Each project is
the slice of

our life of
Michigan clot and

basically the
particular moment when

were much younger and

who were capable to
do that project.

I probably, I will never

try to think to do
that project again,

but it's the incredible

that we succeeded to do it.

>> I wasn't working
as a time and

so I went to the
unemployment office

and they said that
they needed workers

for the crystals
Running Fence.

At the time I was 18,

free will, something to do,

so I decided to do it.

It was tough because
you had to carry

the heavy material and

then hook up on the top

and then hookup on the
sides and the bottom.

The hardest part
was probably

putting down the bottom.

Because in, you also
have the wind and

the pressure of the
wind on both sides.

To see how it's

turned out now is
just amazing to me.

It's exhilarating
to see all of

these pictures
and all the work

that Christo had
put into this,

he put his heart into it,

you can tell and
Jeanne-Claude of course.