Martin EganW 18th St between 6th Ave and 5th AveHeart Two · Location 204 · Drawn October 20021234Select 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 7Download photograph 8Video podcast0:00There's a large TJ Maxx on the northwest corner of 18th Street and 6th Avenue.0:07If you were to walk east down 18th Street along TJ Maxx and look up to the third story,0:14you would see a large TJ Maxx sign.0:16Follow that sign down to the sidewalk level and you see two metal grates buffering either0:25side of a blank rectangular brick surface.0:30was made. This is Captain Martin Egan Jr. He was drawn in October of 2002. His drawing0:39is counting eight people. TJ Maxx gets to call this building theirs. We do not have0:46any building we can call ours. None. In fact, most people don't. So it is an inevitable0:52fact that if we are going to draw on walls, none of those walls are going to be ours by0:57deed, but only by our deeds. We are often asked if we get permission from building owners.1:04For the last decade, we have always sought and received the thumbs up to tape. Respect1:10always gets approval. On a whim, the fire department captain tried bungee jumping, then1:16skydiving. He ran the New York City Marathon in 2000. When he saw a near century old colonial1:21colonial-style house next to a pond in Great Kills, Staten Island,1:25he decided he would buy it, completely gut it, and put it back together again.1:29The only issue was that Captain Egan, 36, had no construction experience.← Location 203Heart Two · Location 204Location 205 →
