Week of color: yellow #5

image: www.christojeanneclaude.net

image: www.christojeanneclaude.net

At sunrise one morning about twenty years ago 1,880 people began simultaniously to open the 1,760 yellow umbrellas set up in a river valley in southern California and the 1,340 blue umbrellas placed in an other river valley in Japan to finalize the land art project The Umbrellas by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists wanted to reflect the similarities and differences in the ways of life and use of land at the two locations. Read more about the project here.