John HumberFreedom Pl between W 69th St and W 68th StHeart Three · Location 262 · 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 7Video podcast0:00The best side of the West Side can be found on Freedom Place between West 69th Street and West 68th Street.0:07On the West side of the street is another Trump Place offering studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and penthouse apartments.0:14Our drawing was made spaced between two display windows.0:17The displays haven't changed in years.0:19To the right is another panoramic view of New York City at the beginning of night.0:25And to the left, a beautified portrait of a park near here.0:30The Juin is a similar two-tone space with a simpler, smoother concrete above a bespeckled0:35granite surface.0:37One detail to locate the surface is another square metal plaque with the words water etched0:42lightly into it.0:44This is John Humber Jr.0:47He was drawn in June of 2003.0:50His drawing is counting five people.0:54For heart three, we have made the decision to create photo montages of our documentation.1:00The result, of course, is a new uber-photograph.1:04These composite ideas of the space collage the most noteworthy and provocative elements1:10from each location.1:12It is our hope that we will be able to provide some insight into the intimate experience1:16of the architecture and texture around us.1:19we have made the decision to take a wide range of liberties when we oversee the merger of the documentation.1:25The process of making these new images takes a couple of hours apiece,1:28then undergoes one or two critiquing reviews by the laptop squad.1:33Post-critique changes are made, then the images go through several more steps before they are ready to be posted.1:39Then, in all honesty, each page usually goes through even more changes after they are tested1:46by peers on the other end of the web.1:50The only changes that I don't enjoy or look forward to is whenever a name is removed from1:56the master list of the deceased.1:58In the first year of doing this project, I had to redo some pages a dozen times.2:05and we will continue to redo them until they are accurate. I am drawing the figure2:13all quiet and calm on this bright sunny morning. This process is so amazing. We2:19are covering so much area in the city and constantly exploring and looking at2:22the environment around us. Strangely, I do feel disconnected from it all. Disconnected2:28isn't quite the right word, but the feeling is I'm a foreigner in this city.2:31The feeling isn't surprising because it's true. I'm not from NYC. I have no heritage here.2:37The way this project makes us travel brings an intimacy that makes it seem like I know the place,2:42but the path is being guided by four big red pen inked hearts on a tourist map.2:51Humber joined the EPA when it was founded in 1971.2:55He was an advisor to the World Bank and evaluated projects for fuel cell technology.3:00A planned memorial to Humber, somewhere off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, in view of one3:05of the wind farms, will read in part, a kind humanity...← Location 261Heart Three · Location 262Location 263 →
