Sara Elizabeth LowThe Lake in Central Park between W 75th St and W 74th StHeart Three · Location 280 · 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 17Download photograph 18Download photograph 19Show all 19 photographsVideo podcast0:00This drawing's location ultimately was in the center of the lake in Central Park.0:05To get to the lake, you'll have to enter into Central Park,0:08come in through West 77th Street, cross over the bike path,0:12see the sign for Hearn's Head, which brings you onto a path0:15that if you keep to the left will eventually bring you to a large rock.0:20Stay on the path to the left and it will circle the rock0:24to a point where you're between the rock and the lake.0:28This is the place that we launched her drawing from with the assistance of one of the many row boaters out on the lake.0:36The drawing was brought south towards the skyline of Manhattan and dropped off in what we perceived to be the exact center of this lake.0:45This is Sara Elizabeth Low. She was drawn in June of 2003. Her drawing is counting ten people.0:56This drawing is the product of sticking to the challenges and literalness of having the figures drawn in locations that, when pieced together, form a heart.1:07This drawing, according to our map, was in the middle of the lake.1:11Joe, Andrew, Jay, Adriana, and myself set out to make the appropriate life-size silhouette out of sticks lashed together with our tape.1:21When completed, we put tape on either side of the sticks to create the closest estimation we could1:26to a three-dimensional tape art figure. This representation of Sara Elizabeth Low was then1:34carefully brought to the water's edge and laid on its surface. Now all we had to do was float1:40the figure out about 50 yards. Swimming was not an option, and a man with a robust, remote-controlled1:46boat offered no solution either. We found our savior in the form of a mother and son canoeing1:52by our location. The boy used a stick to hold on to the figure and the mom rode it slowly away from1:58shore. When it reached its correct location in the center of the lake, we hollered out for the2:04drawing to be let go. And with this creation of Sara Elizabeth Low floating on cool water, we have2:10officially finished off half of heart three.2:14Sara Elizabeth Low was poised, collected, yet prone to sudden streaks of silliness,2:19a personality to calm even the most enraged traveler, and her job sated her wanderlust,2:25her need for cosmopolitan glamour.2:28In the summer, she'd phone from San Francisco or Vancouver because she loved that she had2:33to wear a sweater, rubbing it in about how hot and humid it is in Arkansas.← Location 279Heart Three · Location 280Location 281 →
