Christopher Rudolph ZarbaFreedom Pl between W 68th St and W 66th StHeart Three · Location 259 · Drawn June 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 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Download photograph 13Show all 13 photographsVideo podcast0:00Coming off of West 66th Street and traveling north on Freedom Place, the first wall you run into is on the east side of the street.0:07The wall is tremendously long, and scattered throughout it is a brotherhood of windows, gates, and doors.0:16Most of the windows show the wear and tear of having rocks thrown through them.0:21And where the windows are completely demolished, they've been filled in with cinder block.0:25If you pass the first two broken windows on your right and keep traveling, you'll find0:31a fracture in the wall.0:32It was used as a guiding decision on where and how to draw this figure.0:38This crack in the wall was used as a decision for where to place the figure with the diagonal0:44arm pointing upward along this series of 90 degree angles.0:50This is Christopher Rudolph Zarba.0:52He was drawn in June of 2003.0:56This drawing is counting five people.1:00Back to 2003.1:02The reason we have not told the press is simple.1:05We do not know how long it will take to get this project done.1:08To be honest, I thought that it would be done by now.1:11It is far from finished.1:13The worst thing I can imagine happening in regards to this body of work1:17is for a family to be waiting for us to get it done.1:19At the end of the day, they would be counting on the progress of a small pack of friends with laptops in an old mill building in Providence, Rhode Island, to find the thousands of hours of hypothetical free time to get this thing finished.1:31Making the decision to do it was one of the heart.1:35Making the decision to finish it is one of the heart and brain.1:38It will take a long time.1:40Since we are counting the deceased in alphabetical order, we will get to the Z's last, and it would be awful to make anyone wait, so we will not tell the press.1:49On top of that, the list is ever-changing as more bodies are identified and investigations into the missing go on.1:56It could still be a year or two before we wrap it up, but the decision has been made.2:05Christopher Zarba came from a musical family.2:07His father was a piano teacher in the Boston area, and his uncle is a well-known Massachusetts vocalist.2:13And while Zarba worked as a software engineer for a communications firm, music also played2:18a significant role in his life.2:20He played the piano and French horn.2:23He also painted, gardened, and learned to speak German and Italian fluently.2:27He was perpetually curious and even keeping...← Location 258Heart Three · Location 259Location 260 →
