Gerard DewanPark Ave between E 22nd St and E 23rd StHeart Two · Location 197 · 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 east side of Park Avenue, south of 23rd Street, are a series of stores.0:09The stores have changed a lot in the last couple of years,0:11and this drawing is presently as of spring 2006,0:15just right of the entrance to the American Express Travel Services.0:19If that store were to disappear also, you can locate this drawing0:22by finding the space just to the left of the three brown marble columns0:30south side of this block. This is Gerard Dewan. He was drawn in October of 2002.0:38His drawing is counting 10 people. One of the interesting observations of walking extensively0:43through neighborhoods is that we followed the path of the graffiti too. This was one that covered a0:49huge radius on the east side. We have been asked to stop Bush all day. It would be a whole different0:57for the United States if it were that simple. That is what makes overthrowing a dictator so1:01interesting. If a person at the top loses power, anything can happen. If Bush were to disappear,1:07then you would have to stop Cheney, then stop Hastert, then stop Stevens, then stop Powell, then...1:15Gerard P. Dewan was not a New Yorker, and he would have told you that. He was a Bostonian,1:20the son of a firefighter, who in turn was the son of a firefighter. But there were no jobs going in1:25in the Boston Fire Department, and so he took the southbound bus and began his career in1:29New York five years ago.1:31Jerry DeJuan, 35, just wanted to be a firefighter, said his friend and landlord, Sean Cummings.← Location 196Heart Two · Location 197Location 198 →
