Karleton D B FyfeW 55th St between 8th Ave and 9th AveHeart Three · Location 235 · Drawn March 2003Hover over or select the image to reveal a hidden view.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Video podcast0:00As of Spring 2006, you can't see the surface this drawing was made on.0:04It's west of 8th Avenue on West 55th Street.0:09The drawing was made and framed inside a half-circle arch just off of the sidewalk.0:15It was a fantastic and compositionally satisfying place to draw.0:20But at the present time, the surface is not viewable.0:24A lot of construction must be going on inside the 8th Avenue Gore.0:27They built what looks like a quarter of a temporary plywood house leading out from their building about two and a half feet into the sidewalk.0:37The plywood is unusual in that it is a large, raw wood surface exposed to the street that has not been painted in any way whatsoever.0:49This is Karleton D B Fyfe. He was drawn in March of 2003.0:553. His drawing is counting 10 people. Sometimes when they take down buildings, an empty lot1:02remains for a long time. Most often the walls that face this lot are of the stunningly empty variety.1:09And all the time, these walls are attractive to the purveyors of public message makers.1:15I am sure that all the graffiti monkeys and graffiti artists are interested in these walls.1:20In the same category are placed the varying levels of advertising monkeys, you know who you are, and the thoughtful advertisers who take the spaces they are working in seriously.1:32Then there is us. We hung on the tall fence of this vacant lot for a bit and dreamed.1:37Then across the street we spotted an architectural oddity on a building that we knew would be a perfect frame.1:43passing between two parked police cars we officially passed into a residential1:48neighborhood where we received residential looks as we drew a storm was1:54brewing and the temperature was dropping and Andrew and I worked side by side to1:59draw this figure there was so much to be excited about take the birth of his own2:05son he and his wife made it a group project they sent family and close2:09close friends a video titled, It's a dot, dot, dot, showing them going for the sonogram and at the end2:15opening an envelope in which the doctor had written, boy. When Jackson turned one, they asked the same2:21group to write something and steal it for him to open when he turned 18. Then because Mr. Fife heard2:27that the terrible twos were caused by frustration at not being able to communicate,2:31he taught his son sign language. He was really living it.← Location 234Heart Three · Location 235Location 236 →
