{"id":1001,"date":"2005-02-12T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T04:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/12\/jeanne-claude-is-my-new-heroine\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T17:06:15","slug":"jeanne-claude-is-my-new-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/12\/jeanne-claude-is-my-new-heroine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanne-Claude is my new heroine."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Back in the days when I used to make attempts at creativity, I got into a fight with my photography professor in the middle of class one day.  I had gone to a budget protest rally in Albany and taken a bunch of pictures of the protesters, and they were fantastic looking (if I do say so myself).  So when it came time to present them in class, I was quite proud of my work.  But this professor kept going, &quot;yeah, they&#8217;re nice to look at, but <em>what do they mean?<\/em>&quot; After a few rounds of this, I finally had enough and just blurted out, &quot;why do they have to <em>mean<\/em> anything?  why can&#8217;t they just be an interesting-looking documentation of an event?  why can&#8217;t they just be great-looking pictures?&quot;  I&#8217;ll admit that I thought I actually lost the argument, not because my point wasn&#8217;t valid but, well, because I disagreed with the professor.  But he must have taken what I said to heart, because I ended up with an A in the class (even though I certainly didn&#8217;t get an A on every assignment).<\/p>\n<p>The reason why I post this story now?  Because I was just watching the news, and they had an interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, where Jeanne-Claude had this gem:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>It has no purpose, it is not a symbol, it is not a message, it is only a work of art.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel so&#8230;validated.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been enjoying the whole Gates process more than I thought I would.  At this point, the city is all Gates, all the time.  I had lunch with some clients today in a conference room with a view of the park, and we could see the orange towers just snaking through the trees.  Aside from my attempt to get up super-early tomorrow morning to take pictures from the ground, I may have to attempt something from our offices as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days when I used to make attempts at creativity, I got into a fight with my photography professor in the middle of class one day. I had gone to a budget protest rally in Albany and taken a bunch of pictures of the protesters, and they were fantastic looking (if I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[29,15],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-g9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}