Arthur BarryW 31st St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 123 · Drawn October 2001123Select 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 podcast0:00You can't get to this drawing, actually.0:02It's on the west side of 10th Avenue, at the end of West 31st Street.0:06At the present time, it's a huge construction site,0:09and they're building a building over where the wall initially was.0:13If you were to follow West 31st Street and continue going into a place that you shouldn't go,0:19you'd find the drawing's location on the right-hand side,0:22on a large concrete wall about 100 yards in.0:26This is Arthur Barry.0:27He was drawn in October of 2001.0:32His drawing is counting ten people.0:34Look carefully.0:36You can see Arthur Barry’s fireman on the wall.0:39In fact, he is in the center of a really, really long wall that is in a no-man's land.0:44Tall fences at the ends of this empty megalot made this the first inaccessible site along my chosen path.0:50Well, obviously that's not completely true.0:53It was very funny to be standing at a barbed wire gate looking at a marvelously blank wall0:59and being able to see exactly where Arthur Barry was supposed to be drawn.1:03And here is where I make the decision about how literal I want to be about creating the heart pattern.1:10If you were to connect the dots between each fireman figure,1:13you would be able to draw a heart two miles high spanning 40 city blocks of Manhattan.1:19When I finish this memorial, there will be four such hearts.1:23literal, it is.1:24A bachelor, Barry was the proud owner of three Harley Davidsons he fussed over as if they1:29were children.1:30He was such a fanatic biker that when a companion he had set out with on a round trip to Alaska1:36decided to ride an aircraft home on the return leg, Barry completed the trip solo.1:41Seems he had plans, however, to make it easier for future...← Location 122Heart Two · Location 123Location 124 →
