Last year, I made myself write a personal Art Manifesto.
But I find it’s a great dialogue to have with the people who are close to you and anyone in the audience who’s looking at your work. There’s no right answer, so people avoid the topic. At one point, it says “It’s art if an artist made it.” How do you define what is and is not art? The book explores the question of what is and what is not art. Spread from Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World highlighting their collaboration This book is really a celebration of collaboration, and what the Christos helped the world to see- all that art could do and be. Without hesitation, I would say that my favorite art projects (personally) have sprung from joyful collaborations with friends or siblings. “What if we went bigger? What if we took the art OUT of the museum INTO the world? What if we surrounded islands and you had to see it from above? What if it was temporary, and didn’t last forever?” Jeanne-Claude didn’t get credit until decades later, but you can see how each work of art began as a dialogue between the two. I was immediately taken by the way he focused on the collaboration between the two artists. Greg Neri did a truly beautiful job telling their story. What made you want to bring the story of Christo and Jean-Claude’s artwork to life? What did you learn in the process about them, or art, or anything really? Anything you were surprised by? Elizabeth’s rendering of The Surrounded Islands, from Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World
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