Jeffrey GiordanoW 64th Street west of West End AveHeart Three · Location 256 · 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 8Download photograph 9Video podcast0:0064th Street has what could be called a continuation west of West End Avenue.0:06The continuation acts as a large, glorious driveway between the West End Towers.0:12On the north side of the 64th Street, to the left of the 24-hour parking, was a black metal0:19fence about six feet high.0:22metal fence was supported by an infrastructure that created black square frames our drawing0:30was originally done in the fourth square frame from the building as the spring 2006 the fencing0:37that we made this drawing on is gone and now the poles that held the fencing are inaccessible0:43because of a plywood wall this construction upon a construction has yielded as of this date a0:51angular hole in the ground.0:54This is Jeffrey Giordano.0:56He was drawn in March of 2003.1:00His drawing is counting 10 people.1:04In regards to drawing figures on the ground,1:07there are boundaries to those decisions.1:10We will not draw figures on pavement.1:12To do so zigzags through too many negative associations.1:16It is out of respect to the people we are drawing.1:19Also, it is in response to the materials of the city and a stirring connection to the sheer magnitude of lives lost to the turbulent combination of concrete and metal toppling Earth's way.1:33The space for this figure has plenty of empty, uninterrupted sidewalk and pavement to draw on. It is never even considered.1:40Instead, we set out on the task of weaving the drawing of Jeffrey Giordano into a fence.1:46Passing the tape by both sides of the fencing, we were able to make, slowly but surely, the likeness of this fireman.1:53The fence is the quintessential canvas of memorials.1:57The fence provides the interlacing gridwork that can be utilized for the displays of flowers, drawings, mementos, memorabilia, personal artifacts, or icons that are the result of spontaneous outpourings from a sympathetic public.2:10The mesh walls designed to keep the public at bay during times of emergency are also the vessels that provide solace.2:18For many, it is the only way they can publicly mourn and give acknowledgment to those who have passed away.2:24By the end of our drawing on the fence, dozens of people had called the front desk inside the looming Trump Tower.2:30They sent someone out to chat with us. It was a good conversation, but it became imperative that we wrap up our activities and move on.2:38We decided it would be our last drawing of the day.2:43His wife's beloved stepfather, clinging to life in the burn center at New York Hospital,2:49made Jeffrey Giordano promise to become a firefighter.2:53Firefighter Giordano, 45, also became a devoted friend of the burn center,2:58where adults and children go to heal and where his wife Marie worked.3:01He took ice cream to the children there and endlessly raised money for the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.3:08On January 22nd, the hospital will open a children's playroom in the Burn Center.3:13It will be named for Firefighter Giordano.← Location 255Heart Three · Location 256Location 257 →
