John FanningW 15th St between 8th Ave and 7th AveHeart Two · Location 210 · 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 5Download photograph 6Video podcast0:00This drawing was drawn below the surface of the street.0:02It's easy to get to.0:03It's at 255 West 15th Street, just east of 8th Avenue.0:09When you stand in front of 255, there's a set of stairs leading up,0:13and just to the right of it is a set of stairs leading down.0:17At the bottom of that staircase, on the wall facing to the south,0:20is where this drawing was made.0:22This is John Fanning.0:24He was drawn in October of 2002.0:27and two. His drawing is counting ten people. Quiet, hidden spaces. We often find ourselves0:36seeing through the eyes of a person without a home, looking for a place to rest our heads.0:43We want to reach out and be undisturbed at the same time. The New York City firefighter once0:50plunged into the treacherous East River to rescue the passengers of a helicopter that had crashed.0:54Another time he saved a boy dangling from cables in an empty elevator shaft between the third and fourth floors of a burning building in the Bronx.1:02When a truck bomb blew up at the World Trade Center in 1993, Fanning was among the first firefighters on the scene, arriving within minutes of the explosion.← Location 209Heart Two · Location 210Location 211 →
