Timothy HaskellCentral Park between W 81st St and W 80th StHeart Three · Location 289 · Drawn March 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 8Video podcast0:00To get to this strong's location, you'll have to find your way to the bottom of the Great Lawn in Central Park.0:07If you're on top of Belvedere Castle, just turn around and find the stairs that lead to the west.0:13Head down the stairs, and you'll enter onto the pathway, and keep taking rights.0:18You'll pass the box office on your right, and eventually, you'll find a path that leads to the Dragonfly Preserve.0:25The sign marks the entrance to a short dirt path that goes to a wooden dock that overlooks0:32a small lake at the base of Belvedere Castle.0:35At the end of this wooden dock, on the left, beneath several inches of compacted wintery0:41ice, we carved out this figure with our bare hands.0:45This is Timothy Haskell.0:48He was drawn in March of 2003.0:50and three. His drawing is counting ten people. This figure was carved out of ice. The tiny0:59wooden outlook it is on sticks its neck out over the pond at the base of the court. This1:05attractive outcourt is a popular space for pedestrians to meander. This wintry foot barrage1:11has stopped the snow beneath their feet into a solid two inches of ice. This ice becomes1:17comes our next challenge and we have a heck of a time breaking it up. Stomping and cracking1:22it with pocket knives gets us to the point where we can get at it with our fingertips.1:26We declare this is going to be the last drawing of the day, and with that comes no attempt1:31to protect ourselves from the digging and clawing we need to do. In the realm of drawing,1:36tape art has always struck me as a fundamentally primitive method of making lines, real basic,1:42almost backwards. Clawing away at the ice though, I was reminded of what the real1:47face of primitive mark making looks like. All the effort made to make this ice1:52carving would then be brought into a digital realm where lots of effort would1:56be made on a complimentary temporary project. Process over product, process2:02over product. I remind myself this as we melt away some of the details of the2:06figure with the heat from the tips of our fingers.2:11Timothy Haskell trained his Dalmatian Blaze to stop, drop, and roll.2:14He took the dog to the school where his sister Dawn teaches.2:18Timothy would say to the dog,2:20Your clothes are on fire. What do you do?2:22She recalled yesterday.2:23She would stop, throw herself on the ground, and roll.2:26He would ask the kids, What if you smell smoke?2:29The dog would crawl on her belly over to a door.2:32Timmy would say, Feel the door first to see if it's hot.2:35And the dog would put her paws on the door.2:39Timothy grew up in Seaford, New York, on a skateboard, then a dirt bike, and always on the water.2:44As an adult, he loved scuba diving and extreme games.← Location 288Heart Three · Location 289Location 290 →
