A woman with a megaphone, wearing the Surrounded Island pink shirt on a sunny day with blue sky and treeline in the background. She stands on a pink, tarp-like platform addressing a crowd around her, her left arm pointing to the right. A man behind her, also with megaphone, directs attention with his arm in the air and is walking away from the camera. There is a line of people running behind them along the center of the photograph, standing along rolled up pink tarp, ready for instructions to unroll and situate the material on the ground.

Object Timeline

	We acquired this object.
1983	Work on this object began.
2019	We photographed this object.
2020	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Photograph, Surrounded Islands Construction Site, 1983

This is a Photograph. It was created by Jeanne-Claude and Christo and photographed by Wolfgang Volz. It is dated 1983. Its medium is digital print on paper. It is a part of the department.

In addition to the T-shirts made for the Surrounded Islands workforce, WilliWear produced thousands of extras to sell to the public. Stores in Miami weren’t interested in selling them, so Smith and Mallet sold them off the backs of trucks. Many are still cherished as mementos today.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Willi Smith: Street Couture.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUtbL/
Accession Number s-e-3244
Object ID 2318802460