i like metal because it has tensile strength that is fantastic. something very small can hold up something gigantic. i love the fact that you can stretch it in the most incredible way, make things that look like fabric and look soft. my childhood started off in independent nigeria and i was sent to boarding school in england so i had one foot in nigeria and one foot in england. my people, the kalabari, live on 22 islands in the niger delta and our transport was by boat. dugout canoes that women could take out and they would gather periwinkles on the mudflats and make the most incredible stew. you had oysters growing on the roots of mangroves, dangling in the water.
that look like fabric and look soft. my childhood started off in independent nigeria and i was sent to boarding school in england so i had one foot in nigeria and one foot in england. my people, the kalabari, live on 22 islands in the niger delta and our transport was by boat. dugout canoes that women could take out and they would gather periwinkles on the mudflats and make the most incredible stew. you had oysters growing on the roots of mangroves, dangling in the water. nature was full. gradually these things have been dying out because of pollution. because of the way that oil is being extracted there. newsreel: oil was discovered in the niger delta in 1956 and now nigeria is one
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it was wrapped by nearly 100 rock climbers. they came down, installing all this 100,000 square metres of fabric and matter for one week. jeanne claude and myself, we are both together artist. and this, i miss so much jeanne claude today. we were partners, we lived together, we would fight together. it was like an adventure that you cannot repeat it. newsreel: this novel treatment is, they say, in the classic tradition of art. the reichstag was a victorian building with lots of ornaments, decoration. suddenly it was changed, like a sketch. like what is essential, of the height, the width, the forms, they are all hidden by this fragile material that moved with the wind. it was in constant motion.
of engineers, specialists, lawyers, services. very much like building a highway or a bridge or an airport. it was wrapped by nearly 100 rock climbers. they came down, installing all this 100,000 square metres of fabric and matter for one week. jeanne claude and myself, we are both together artist. and this, i miss so much jeanne claude today. we were partners we lived together, we would fight together. it was like an adventure that you cannot repeat it. newsreel: this novel treatment is, they say, in the classic tradition of art. the reichstag was a victorian building with lots of ornaments, decoration. suddenly it was changed, like a sketch. like what is essential, of the height, the width, the forms they are all hidden by this fragile material