Gary BoxW 43rd St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 137 · Drawn November 200112345Select 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 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Video podcast0:00On 43rd Street, exactly in the middle between 10th and 11th Avenue, on the south side of the street is Rescue Company No. 1.0:09The drawing is located inside the fire station.0:12The fire station houses one emergency vehicle, and if you were to enter the station and follow it to the back, on the right, you'd find a blank white wall.0:24This is Gary Box. He was drawn in November of 2001.0:30His drawing is counting ten people.0:33It is nothing short of a relief to share my efforts with the brotherhood of people that I have been drawing.0:39Every fireman that I talked to was sympathetic, encouraging, and interested in my undertaking.0:44They had lost several people from their station.0:47It was comforting to be surrounded by the objects and materials that I tried to imagine all day.0:53It was the first time that I got a chance to draw the helmets and jackets from real life.0:58My efforts were added to the mixture of projects that had poured in from around the world1:02and knelt before all their lost ones.1:05Rescue Company No. 1 is located on 43rd Street between 10th and 11th Avenue.1:11I arrived there around 9 p.m.1:13I was not alone.1:14There were about a dozen people or so outside.1:17Overhearing their conversations, I discovered that they were from the Midwest, Cali, Canada, and New York.1:23A lot of people were in town for the funerals and memorial services,1:27There was a makeshift memorial of plastic flowers, candles, and cards outside.1:33I asked if I could go in.1:36The New York Times printed a two-day spread of all the deceased firemen.1:41It is the one in this photo and the source of images for all of the firemen's portraits.1:48His eulogy described Gary Box as the one person he knew who demonstrated such consistent focus of ideals1:54and his commitment to his family, his friends, his job,1:57and the challenges that he faced in his day-to-day life.2:00Gary Bach spent his free time playing with his two children2:03or fixing up his family's North Belmore home.← Location 136Heart Two · Location 137Location 138 →
