Thomas CullenE 33rd St between 1st Ave and 2nd AveHeart Two · Location 184 · Drawn October 200212345Select 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 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Video podcast0:00On the south side of East 33rd Street near the intersection of First Avenue is a long, tall, yellow concrete wall with one interruption in it.0:10Following a black, shoulder-high metal fence will lead you to a black door, a thick, rectangular plane that was the perfect frame for a drawing.0:21This is Thomas Cullen III. He was drawn in October of 2002.0:26two. His drawing is counting ten people. This block is consumed entirely by a large0:3320-story high apartment complex. Very complex indeed. We were able to assess that there was0:41a courtyard with blank walls in the center of this block, but there were also two doormen0:46security officers with very strict orders to only let card-carrying residents into the building.0:52building. The next closest option was to go to the movies on 31st Street and talk to the0:57manager about drawing on a wall at the back of the theater.1:01The map that we are using does not show individual buildings, it shows blocks. This block is1:07huge. It consumes two crossover streets. Our traveling path runs right through the middle1:13of this block. Based on the spacing of our drawings, we will need to place a figure in1:18in the middle of this block.1:20This drawing is the one on 33rd Street.1:23The map below shows that ultimately,1:25we will have to skip over two streets to draw again.1:29Weeks before his death, as a member of Squad 411:31in the Bronx, Thomas Cullen, 31, studied for the fire1:35department's lieutenant's exam.1:37But even without a test ahead of him, his wife Susan1:39said his idea of pleasure reading1:41was an abstruse volume about confined rescue1:43or some other technical aspect of firefighting.1:47if he worked in a kind of building he was unfamiliar with he would read up on its1:50structural peculiarities the couple met in 1992 at fordham university← Location 183Heart Two · Location 184Location 185 →
