The Indicator: Christo is Over the River

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© Jeanne-Claude and their team during a wind tunnel test for Over The River, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, April 1998 Scale of the fabric panels: 1 to 16.7 Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1998 Christo

In 1992, the artist, Christo, with his now late-wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude, had a vision to suspend miles of silvery translucent fabric over the Arkansas River in Colorado. Would you expect anything less? 

Christo usually works at such massive geographic scales—land interventions that can be discerned by satellites passing overhead. Here his ambition stretches for 42 miles (67.6 km) of scenic river with no less than a total of 5.9 miles (9.5 km) of fabric suspended over the eight different sections of the river. 

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Cite: Sebastian Jordana. "The Indicator: Christo is Over the River" 06 Feb 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/328205/the-indicator-christo-is-over-the-river> ISSN 0719-8884

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