Matthew BarnesW 30th St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 122 · Drawn November 20011234Select a number to open a drawing state.The published 2006 collage is shown above. The numbered links open archival images. Use your browser’s Back button to return here.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Video podcast0:00The location for this drawing is on an ever-changing wall, directly beneath the elevated railroad tracks on 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue.0:10Four and a half years ago, the wall was covered with just layers and layers of graffiti.0:14Now it is also host to layers and layers of advertisement.0:17This is Matthew Barnes. He was drawn in November of 2001.0:23His drawing is counting ten people.0:26Following my path, I ended up drawing under this train bridge.0:30The sitting person in the photo was a lady with her belongings.0:35As I drew on her living room walls, he did not speak.0:39A man passing in a van, however, did stop to talk.0:43He recognized the drawing as a fireman, and then went on to tell me his story.0:49The van he was driving was one of two his company had.0:53The other had been doing deliveries at the World Trade Center on September 11th.0:58The driver of that van survived.1:01And before me stood yet another person who was scheduled to be there that day,1:07perplexed by the concept of fate.1:10On a March afternoon two years ago, Matthew E. Barnes climbed to the top of a 100-foot aerial ladder1:16to rescue six-week-old twins from a furious blaze on the Upper West Side.1:21Mr. Barnes was honored at City Hall for the rescue.1:24Mr. Barnes and his wife, Susan, had three boys of their own,1:27Matthew Jr., 12, Jesse, 10, and Thomas, 8.← Location 121Heart Two · Location 122Location 123 →
