Christo had once said: “The work of art is a cry of freedom”. Christo is a sculptor who worked with his wife until her death in 2009. Christo personally financed all of his projects. He had raised money by selling small paintings he had created. But his main works of art were giant shells of different things. His favorite enclosures were buildings or places seen daily by people. By enveloping these places it gave them a new identity. Christo has undertaken many projects. One of the best known was the storming of the Reichstag in Berlin. They used a thickly woven polypropylene fabric with an aluminum surface area of ​​1,076,390 square feet. They also used 9.7 miles of rope. They only used recyclable materials, as is the case with most other projects. Over a period of two weeks the silver fabric shaped by the blue ropes created a beautiful flow of vertical folds highlighting the features and proportions of the imposing structure. This revealed the essence of the Reichstag. The shell of the Reichstag was created by 90 professional climbers and 120 installers. Even with all the workers involved in this project it took 24 years to complete. Another project created by Christo is the Matsaba Project which is currently still under renovation. The matsaba was created in a place called Abu Dhabi and work began in 1977. Once completed it will be the largest sculpture in the world. Matsaba itself is an ancient form familiar to the people of that region. Christo uses over 410,000 multi-coloured barrels to form a mosaic of bright, shimmering colours, echoing Islamic culture. The sculpture will be 492 feet tall, 738 feet deep at a 60-degree angle, and 984 feet wide at the vertical walls. At the top... in the center of the paper... texture which is something Christo loves to use in his creations. Christo had made nearly hundreds of these paintings before meeting his wife Jeanne Claude, whom he had met when his mother hired him to paint a portrait of him. Jeanne had thought of his paintings as “different,” but she had grown to love them and helped him create much larger ones in the future, such as the Reichstag shell. The reason Christo said he liked wrapping bigger things was because let's say every day you pass a certain park. You know where it is and that's where you sometimes notice different people too. But if they asked you to draw sai park you would have no idea how to draw it in detail. So Christo wraps things up to give them a new identity and let people try to remember what they look like and gives them a reason to try to look at the everyday things you see in detail.