Thomas HaskellCentral Park between E 79th St and E 78th StHeart Three · Location 287 · Drawn March 2003Hover over or select the image to reveal a hidden view.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Video podcast0:00To get to this drawing's location, you'll need to work your way from the previous location in the middle of Central Park.0:07Keep heading down the pathway in the direction that you were headed.0:10In front of you, you see a stone building.0:14It's a structure for maintenance materials, and it has public bathrooms.0:18If you had a really, really good map of Central Park, you would see it labeled the Ramble Shed.0:25The drawing was made on the right hand side near the gentleman's bathroom between that entrance and the window on the stone face of this building facing to the south.0:37There is presently a park bench right in front of where the drawing was made.0:43This is Captain Thomas Haskell Jr.0:46He was drawn in March of 2003.0:50His drawing is counting eight people.0:54At last a wall. One of the many bathrooms slash park offices scattered throughout the park1:00gives us an excellent opportunity to draw a quick figure. My hands are wet and icy from making all1:06the snow portraits. Back in Providence, Andrew and I are working on a tape art project that1:12involves returning to the same wall every day to draw. This wall narrative was started in September1:19and will run through May. With this duration spanning the course of a very cold winter,1:25we have become no stranger to working outside. Last November, we did a couple of days taping1:31in 14-degree weather. The roughest part of this is that we have to do it with no gloves.1:37Even cut-off gloves introduce their own unique problems, and it's just faster to go without.1:42out. This prospect may sound grim, and it is, and we usually find ourselves working for a couple of1:50hours in those conditions. What is working to our advantage with this outing is that we only have to1:56expose our hands for less than 20 minutes at a time, then they can take refuge for a short stretch.2:03Focusing on this drawing of Captain Thomas Haskell Jr. helps me completely overlook the feeling of2:10of the cold air colliding with red, wet hands.2:13The gloves are a welcome finale.2:18Every year, just before Thanksgiving,2:21Thomas Haskell, 37, would start disappearing2:24into the basement of his home in Massapequa, New York, for hours,2:28forbidding anyone else to come down.2:30He'd stay up until 3 a.m., said his wife, Barbara Haskell.2:34Then, about two weeks before Christmas,2:36his wife, daughters, and friends, and other relatives2:38would be invited downstairs to see an elaborate winter landscape2:42with hundreds of tiny ceramic figures surrounded by ski shallots2:47with three separate train sets running through it all.2:51Last year, he built three miniature towns,2:54Meganville, Ehrenberg, and Taratown, named for his daughters,← Location 286Heart Three · Location 287Location 288 →
