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                                                                                          ezine at l'atelier bonita
                                                     established since december 2002

Christo's Gates : A Review                             by  Paul White Photographs by Bonita (c) 2005 Atelier Bonita 15 / 02 / 05 Central Park; wow. Perched on a rock here in the heart of Manhattan I am impressed. Firstly, by Christo's 'Gates'. Not so much the individual pieces, but the concept. Up close they're just big orange portals. From afar they're a wall of hard corners and soft shimmer curving and rolling in and around the landscape. Both distincly underwhelming and impressively magnificent all at once. And it seems like all of New York has joined us on an idyllic spring day. Tourists and amateur photographers everywhere. A model teetering in biker chic and killer heels snapped by two overweight balding men. Skateboarders using their unique vision to reinterpret the urban environment. I love skateboarders sometimes. Photos (c) 2005 Atelier Bonita The view is often magnificent. What we have here is some of the best buildings in the world. Gotham all right, for those spires and tovers, balconies, ramparts and crennellations. This is intensive landscaping.    Photos (c) 2005 Atelier Bonita ©2005 Paul White _______________ Paul White is a Londoner by inclination, but will sit around and people watch anywhere in the world. When not writing he is putting the world to rights from his favourite bar stool or trying to make people listen to his new records. Some of his poetry and prose can be found on his blog. Being a literature and philosophy graduate, he is quite naturally unemployed.

                                                   ONCE UPON      a TIME
                                                                                          ezine at l'atelier bonita
                                                     established since december 2002