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Flicking through this month's issue of National Geographic, a man appeared on one of the pages wrapped up in orange fabric, tied around with string, his eye-less glasses left to perch on the outside. His name was Christo and had met his partner Jeanne Claude in Paris, 48 years ago.
Christo & Jeanne Claude, I find out, are an art-duo. They "borrow space and create gentle disturbances".

"Artists of the past have created works in bronze, in marble, in fresco, in oil, even with televisions, they have created works that have been mythological or religious or portraits of landscapes. But there is one quality they have never used and that is the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what will not last. We have love and tenderness for childhood and for our own lives because we know they will not last. And so we wish our work of art to be once in a lifetime and never again".