Creative Couples V

I have to tell you a story about beauty. We were at the work

yard for the Surrounded Islands in Pelican Harbor, Florida.

Surround Islands had just been completed. An old woman

came and said, "This is terrible. What you have done is

horrible. I've never seen anything so horrible in my whole life.

It looks like a giant Pepto-Bismol spill." I said, "Well, madam,

have you seen it?" She said, "Well, I haven't seen it yet.

I only saw it on television. But I know it's terrible."

Not even twenty minutes later, an elderly gentlemen came to

me and said, "Are you the wife of the artist?" "Yes," I said,

"I am." He took my hand and said, "Bless you. I've never

seen anything as beautiful in all my life. It looks like a giant

Pepto-Bismol spill."

- Jeanne-Claude

from Christo and Jeanne-Caude OVER THE RIVER