November 17, 1975: Harris Edelman
Harris Edelman lives in this beautiful loft on the top floor of a building just below the citadel. He has this great idea to float hot air balloons made out of big polyethylene bags from the dry cleaners business downstairs.
It’s a calm evening and we’re all meeting at his loft where he has fabricated these crossed balsa wood structures which keep the bag open enough at the base not to melt the plastic as the hot air from a candle slowly inflate the bag. We let six of them float off glowing and flickering into the night.