Michael ClarkeE 41st St between 2nd Ave and 3rd AveHeart Two · Location 173 · Drawn October 2002123Select 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 podcast0:00This drawing is on 41st Street on the north side of the street directly between 3rd and 2nd Avenue.0:05It's at the entrance to a very large loading dock. The dock is dirty and worn and at the top you can0:11barely make out the phrase clearance 13 feet 6 inches. The drawing is on the left side of the dock0:17on a patch of metal that is beaten and torn. This is Michael Clarke. He was drawn in October of 2002.0:26and two. His drawing is counting five people. This door rattled with activity the entire time.0:33I felt like I was drawing at the entrance to a growling lion's den. This building houses a major0:39newspaper. We have made a conscious effort to not get pressed for our project. It will take such a0:45long time to finish that we do not want families to ever have to wait to see their loved ones0:50represented. September 11th was a scheduled day off. Firefighter Clark went0:56to work because he had switched days with another firefighter. At Wagner0:59College they have retired Michael Clarke’s hockey number 34. His father1:04misses those regular phone calls from him, the ones that came to mean so much1:07more after Jack Clark's wife Eileen died three years ago.← Location 172Heart Two · Location 173Location 174 →
