Thomas HannafinCentral Park between W 77th St and W 76th StHeart Three · Location 278 · 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 13Download photograph 14Download photograph 15Download photograph 16Download photograph 17Show all 17 photographsVideo podcast0:00This drawing is in Central Park. Here's our best attempt at describing where to find it.0:07Enter into Central Park at West 77th Street. Walk on the south side of this entrance.0:14Look over the edge. You'll see a path which leads into the tunnel below you.0:19And to the left of that path, you see a very, very large rock surrounded by a manicured green lawn.0:27The drawing was done on that rock facing to the north. To get to the front of the rock,0:33get onto the sidewalk and keep taking rights until you're standing in front of it. When you're0:39standing in front of the rock, you have a decorative street lamp behind you labeled0:447601A. If you have your back resting against that street lamp, looking at the rock a little0:49bit to the right you see a slight triangular outcropping that blends at an0:56angle into the grass. The drawing was done in that framing. This is Thomas1:03Hannafin. He was drawn in June of 2003. His drawing is counting 10 people.1:13Central Park is a natural oasis on the dense urban island for the residents and1:19and for tape art, the difference in drawing a figure on a rock in the park and on a building1:24is tremendous. Again, I was drawing in a space where I didn't have permission,1:30transforming it momentarily as part of a grander project, but all of the weight of the process,1:36as a violation of someone else's space, had evaporated. It was a peaceful day in the park,1:41and our pace gradually shifted. We no longer were in a frenzied race to complete the figure before1:47before a citizen slash doorman slash security officer decides to shut us down.1:53It was great to be just drawing and laughing and focused on the moment.1:57The city's gift of this public space is very much appreciated.2:02I carried my brother's helmet down from the top of the heap, the pile as they call it.2:08At the end of it, I was met by a chaplain.2:11They wanted to take my brother's helmet from me, but there was no way I was going to give it up.2:17tommy hannifin a man who had stood six foot three and who once long ago led his staten island college basketball team to a city championship earning the nickname floor general and the mantle of local hero← Location 277Heart Three · Location 278Location 279 →
