Brian BilcherW 38th St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 130 · Drawn November 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 2Download photograph 3Video podcast0:00On the bridge that crosses the railroad tracks on West 38th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue,0:05you can find the location for this drawing on the south side of the street.0:10Four and a half years ago, this bridge was brown and covered in graffiti,0:14but as of spring 2006, it is now painted gray and dirty.0:18The drawing was in the second framed segment starting from the left-hand side0:23next to the Best Western Convention Center Hotel.0:26This is Brian Bilcher.0:28He was drawn in November of 2001.0:32His drawing is counting ten people.0:36These drawings continue to be fertile grounds for conversation.0:40Next to this rendering of Brian Bilcher, a woman engaged me for over half an hour.0:47My explanation of the drawings fueled her questions,0:50and she left me with nothing but encouragement and wishes from God.0:55Car stuck on the side of the road? There was firefighter Bilcher. Feeling sick? Like a1:00flash. Firefighter Bilcher was at your bedside. The man liked his adrenaline rushes, said1:05his wife. He once jumped off a lighthouse into the ocean, said Mrs. Bilcher. He even1:11got her to jump with him. She says now that she did it for love. I wanted to impress him.← Location 129Heart Two · Location 130Location 131 →
