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Also that last semester Chriso and his wife were in Santa Rosa to promote Christo's 'Running Fence' for Sonoma County, Christo being an international artist of such things as the Valley Curtain, installed between two Colorado mountain slopes, temporarily for two weeks or so and then taken down and everything put back the way it was.
The term Sonoma is a Pomo Indian word meaning 'many moons', which is what I heard and liked. As was told to me, it meant when you walked the hills at night the moon rose and fell many times, so in a way it meant hilly. It is more generally translated as 'valley of the moon', as less picturesque.
At least one of my teachers took an interest in Christo's fence and it was quite a subject of conversation around the campus. The general conception of an artist is the creation of works of art isolated from the community in general. Here the art project was for the most part political rather than conceptual, and I attended a couple of the city hall meetings where he pitched his idea as well as at the college itself. The project was a long cloth fence which would meander up and down the hills across Sonoma and end up in the sea. Lots of jobs would be provided for the fence makers and it would bring in a lot of tourists. My friends and I visited it from the city and it was quite impressive.
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