Patrick BrownW 48th St between 10th Ave and 9th AveHeart Two · Location 143 · Drawn December 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 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Video podcast0:00On the southeast corner of West 48th Street and 10th Avenue is a park.0:06The park's name is Hell's Kitchen Park,0:08and inside of it is a freestanding wall that the drawing was made on.0:14It's a handball court, and the drawing was made right in the middle of the wall,0:19facing to the west.0:21This is Captain Patrick Brown.0:23He was drawn in December of 2001.0:27His drawing is counting five people.0:30Once again, this wall represents a space that falls exactly onto the trajectory of the heart that I have drawn on my map.0:38It continues to be a fascinating experience using a seemingly arbitrary line to create the walking journey that I am on.0:46Traveling the country doing tape art over the years, I have always been aware of the line that the car was making across the nation.0:52It never seemed too far-fetched that the car could use the nation's interstates and side roads to draw pictures, icons, or words, some well over a thousand miles high and wide.1:04So these two mile-high hearts on the streets of Manhattan are a nice microcosm of that concept.1:10It creates a route I never would have normally followed.1:14He once squeezed a baby grand into his apartment.1:17He loved Broadway shows, saying that in another life he might have been a choreographer.1:23Ms. Watts recalled fondly that when she and Captain Brown, 48, a Vietnam veteran, started dating,1:28he asked her to go with him to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Lower Manhattan.1:33We saw flowers that had been knocked over and we set them up again.← Location 142Heart Two · Location 143Location 144 →
