Michael BoyleW 43rd St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 136 · 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 podcast0:00Following the train tracks, this drawing is on 43rd Street on the north side.0:07It's between 10th and 11th Avenue.0:10The drawing is on a dual-toned brown painted brick.0:14Looks like it's been painted recently.0:16As of 2006, the posters that were in the utility box next to it0:21have remained the same for over four years.0:23In our documentation, there was a cardboard box0:26that is presently replaced with a mountain bike chained to the fence.0:30This is Michael Boyle.0:32He was drawn in November of 2001.0:36His drawing is counting ten people.0:39Night has fallen.0:40I have come to 43rd Street and I am tired.0:43But I promised myself one more figure and a simple space presented itself.0:48Dirty, damp, and dark, it unfortunately turns my efforts into a struggle.0:52But as I work, a fire truck pulls onto the street and passes by me.0:57And then, only a hundred yards away, backs itself into its home, a fire station.1:03There will be one more fireman to draw tonight.1:06He was off duty the morning of September 11th,1:09but Michael Boyle, a firefighter with Engine Company 33 in Manhattan,1:13jumped on the truck anyway when the alarm sounded.1:16He was very simple in his ideas, but complex in his actions,1:20and he could endure pain like no one I've ever known.← Location 135Heart Two · Location 136Location 137 →
