Edmund Glazer10th Ave between W 59th St and 58th StHeart Three · Location 243 · 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 7Video podcast0:00At 59th Street and 10th Avenue is the Roosevelt Division of the St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center.0:07The entrance to this hospital is a slightly snaking driveway underneath a two-story, multiple-arching, columnated structure.0:18Coming off of 59th Street, entering into this driveway, you find an entrance on the left-hand side.0:26This entrance is an exit, four feet wide and eight feet tall.0:31Inside this exitway are three planes.0:34The door, the wall it's facing, and the wall that faces out onto 10th Avenue.0:40This drawing was made on the wall facing out onto 10th Avenue and the trees in the courtyard0:46belonging to the hospital.0:47The drawing was done on a glazed reddish brick.0:51This is Edmund Glazer.0:53He was drawn in March of 2003.0:57His drawing is counting eight people.1:02On a building that is an institution for teaching the law, security cameras are mounted on every corner.1:09Upon closer inspection, there are even more cameras sweeping along the doors and its nice, clean, wide, white walls.1:17A building that wants to keep the law intact is doing an excellent job by taking the precautions1:22to make sure that nothing outside of the ordinary happens inside or outside the building.1:28Across the street is a hospital.1:31I have been working in hospitals doing tape art for patients, families, and staff members1:35for the last eight years.1:38The hospital, as an institution, has always been a welcoming and gracious host, fueling1:44all efforts to implement any means of creating healthy environments. It is a uniquely comfortable1:50place to work. On the front of the building, a recessed exit door becomes the backdrop for my1:57drawing. I'm in a state of suspended humorous attention knowing that anyone could exit out2:02the door at any time. As always, I draw as quickly as I can. Of note, when Adriana went to document2:10meant this drawing, she was addressed quickly by security. But when told that she was, quote,2:15just taking pictures of the wall, they said okay and ceased their questions. This will be one of2:21the only times that this response works. He and his wife Candy had recently moved into a house2:28outside Boston. He would eagerly call his sister, hold up the phone, and say exultantly,2:33Can you hear that babbling brook?2:36In their dream house, Mr. Glazer, 41, fancied himself a handyman2:40and would take his young son, Nathan, on forays to Home Depot,2:44hunting for the one tool that would...← Location 242Heart Three · Location 243Location 244 →
