AustLit

'One art event that changed me was Chrism and Jean-Claude's wrapping of Little Bay in 1969. when I was 19 and had moved to Sydney for the year from my home city of Adelaide. Wrapped Coast, Chrism's first large-scale , was made possible by John Kaldor and constructed by a large tan of volunteers including art students whom my partner. Betty Ross, and I knew. We went to the site several times and walked all over the headland and foreshore as the white fabric was being installed. Its hard to appreciate the scale from photographs—it was massively massive. Although this installation art had nothing to do with language, I was inspired by its audacity and the way it drew attention to what was now not visible, making the ordinary extraordinary. This art said that it was possible to go beyond the confines and safety of the gallery, to think big, that it was okay to be temporary, and that the photography dart mattered.' (Introduction)