Julie Rafalski
I recently came across a piece by Christo & Jeanne -Claude: Purple Store Front. It looks like a stage set of a store the inside display window was "wrapped" and made inaccessible. It made me think of one of my earliest memories of store and the phenomenon of wrapping items.
Food was wrapped in newspapers in the late 80s in Communist Poland. I remember raw wet meat being wrapped in newspapers. There was usually a pile of blank greyish paper in small grocery shops where cheese and cold meat were packed (plastic wrap was not accessible then).
Wrapping of objects is an interesting strategy: the wrapped object doesn't disappear entirely as it retains some of its original shape and size, yet in some ways it does disappear.