Trees and Fabrics and Colors and Ideas

First Part: So about 10 or so years ago i was working for an organization that taught english as a second language, there was this teacher there and i really don't remember where she was from, she had a very very thick east european accent and that's about as far as i get in determining what her nationality was,  it never occured to me to ask her. Anyways, we would talk about art every now and again and one day she comes in and gives me a book of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, mind you, i was young and i didnt really understand what i was looking at, i watched a video of them a little later on that week while i was looking at all the prints in this book and understood maybe about 4% more then what i understood at the initial introduction of their art, which was zilch, nada, moot, nothing. But, ever since ive known who they were and followed what they did. I remember when the gates happened in new york and i felt that it wasnt as captivating as their other installations, most notably for me their "VALLEY" installation.

Second Part: Fast forward about 10 years and i like to go hiking, a lot. i like being in the woods and being able to just walk with my dog Tony The Tank and forget about most things, there's a push i feel to be doing something at all times of the day to feel human and sometimes, i like to escape that, so i go into the woods and mountains a lot.

Third Part: Im colorblind, i can see colors mind you, i am not "everything is gray" colorblind, i just have a hard time differentiating different colors. When i walk in the woods, mountains, etc, most of the time everything looks brown to me, blues look grey to me and it's a big tunnel of sepia sometimes. However, i can see red like noones business.. unless it's paired with green and then i can't really tell. It's strange, it's wierd and because nature doesn't have broad black lines i find it hard to guess what colors im actually looking at.

So taking all that, i decided to go into the woods and have some fun, i enjoyed the shapes with fabric idea, and also because it's such an unnatural color (unnatural to me) that it stands out as it's own object. What exactly is it that invokes emotion? It is nothing but a piece of cloth however it speaks volumes. The human mind is something fierce and strange, and complex, and simple.