The gates were a group of art work by French Artist Jeanne-Claude and Bulgarian artist Chrito Yavcheff.
It comprised of 7,503 vinyl gates installed alog 23 miles of pathways in a park in New York city. A deep saffron colored nyloon cloth hung from each gate. The exhibit continued from 12 Feb, 2005 till 27 Feb, 2005.
The artwork met with mixed reactions, some people loved it for bringing people in central traffic at late night, while others hated it and called the rtwork as a defacement to the landscape.
In the Lord of the Rings, to make Elijah Wood (Frodo) look smaller, they made him stand/sit in a way where he is farther away, but you can't tell he's farther away because it is an illusion.
