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156. L.N. TOLSTOY

Portrait of L.N. Tolstoy, 1908, from the newspaper "Russian Word" (200 rub) was inserted into a gold baroque frame under glass (32000 rub) measuring 67x87 cm and hung on the right (from the highway) tree on the Heidegger electric clearing facing Nina Hagen's gas clearing. Two thick hemp ropes (7.5 meters and 10 meters) * used to carry the frame to the scene were wound on the adjacent two left trees. Short round stick-handles were inserted into the windings for carrying the portrait (not used).
Then a factual souvenir was raffled (with the help of intermediate factography: a photo of 2008 with Nirvana on a tree from the action of the Intersection-2 CD) a factual souvenir: a coin worth 1 ruble with a portrait of L.N. Tolstoy, released on the 160th anniversary of the writer in 1988. For this, the I Ching program was used on a smartphone with three coins; hexagram number 61 "Inner Truth" fell out; Yu. Ovchinnikova got the factographic coin with the portrait of LNT.
The paricipants left the clearing, leaving the installation with a portrait and ropes at the scene.
Note 1: First, the portrait was hung in a package (kraft paper), the hanging time was written on it with a felt-tip pen - 13:43, and the I Ching was manipulated on a smartphone, after which AM wrote the end time of this action on wrapping paper with factography - 13: 50. Then the portrait was removed from the tree, released from the packaging and, already open, hung on the tree again. This period of time (episode of the action), indicated by the digits on the package - 13:43 - 13:50 - is dedicated to the memory of Christo.
Note 2: Two days after the action, on October 4, 2020, O. Sarkisyan and Yan Ginzburg arrived at the clearing, found the portrait and rope windings on the trees in complete safety, removed them and took them to Moscow. The portrait (according to I Ching, hexagram No. 58) went to Yan, and the ropes with sticks went to Oksana.
Note 3: The ropes* episode element is dedicated to Peter Hutchinson.

October 2 - October 4, 2020
Clearings of Heidegger and Nina Hagen, 250 meters southeast of the edge of the Kiev field
towards Lobnya
A. Monastyrsky, E. Elagina, I. Makarevich, M. Konstantinova, D. Novgorodova,
Y. Ovchinnikova, O. Sarkisyan, Yan Ginzburg

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