Andrew Peter Charles Curry GreenW 60th St between 10th Ave and West End AveHeart Three · Location 247 · 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 podcast0:00On 60th Street, west of 10th Avenue, Battleship Gray continues its march towards creating a clean and mark-free surface.0:11On the south side of the street, in the center of the block, is a long, awkward, horizontal trapezoid.0:19As of spring 2006, it is painted a clean gray, and atop this one-story and sloping concrete wall is a nine-foot chain-link fence.0:33The drawing that we made originally blended into the cacophony of graffiti, pen marks, and stickers decorating this abandoned space.0:43You can still see hints of some of those original graffiti marks in the metal ventilated surface at the right side of the wall.0:53This is Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green.0:57He was drawn in March of 2003.1:01His drawing is counting ten people.1:06Is writing USA in big letters on any wall actually anti-establishment?1:11Or was this the act of someone taking advantage of a space where they felt they could freely declare themselves in yellow?1:17For us, the juxtaposition of a passenger from the airplane next to these bold letters is too tempting to pass up,1:24and it provides us with plenty to talk about as we are drawing together.1:28Once again, the threat of war lingers.1:31Polls are showing that a large majority of whoever they polled1:34believe that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center.1:39This has become a belief through a saturating and calculating barrage of mixed information.1:45This gross misinterpretation of the facts, even as we know it, can only lead to bad things.1:51The harder facts point the finger at our need to follow through on the declared intentions in Afghanistan.1:58If freedom for others and safety for all are our intentions, then let those themes run their course where we are.2:07A friend of ours summed it up, said Mrs. Curry Green.2:10He is the person who could go from talking about a book that just came out2:14to telling a knock-knock joke from sixth grade.2:17He was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on his way back to Los Angeles,2:21where he was director of business development for eLogic.2:25After a day of meetings in Boston on September 10th,2:27he had called his mother from his hotel2:29and asked whether it was too late to run up to her house in Chelmsford, Mass. for a visit.← Location 246Heart Three · Location 247Location 248 →
