for more than two decades the artist christo and his wifejeanne—claude decades the artist christo andk with the building up of them symbolise the cold war. you know, i was born in bulgaria in 1935, highly soviet communist country. and they escaped to the west, alone, speaking only russian and bulgarian. coming from a communist country tried to do something involving the east—west relations. it has been bombed and set on fire, seymour and revolution, but never before has the reichstag been wrapped in silver fabric —— seen wall. we never can believe what is the project until we see the real. christo himself is paying for the project, help essentially by sales of his sketches and other work. the reichstag cost us $12 million in 1995. probably today it is about $25 million or $20 million. this project, we need to build an entire structure of engineers, lawyers, services. very much like welding a highway or a bridge or airport. it was wrapped by nearly 100 rock climbers, they came down and they started this 100,000 square metres of fabric in one week. jeanne—claude and myself, we are both