Thomas HolohanE 79th St between 2nd Ave and 3rd AveHeart Three · Location 309 · 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 8Video podcast0:00242 East 79th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue hosts the Yorkville Diner.0:08The Yorkville Diner has showed up sometime in the last couple of years0:11to triumphantly occupy a space that had been unoccupied for quite a long time.0:18In the summer of 2003, we took advantage of this empty space0:22and its lack of owners to draw a figure in one of the empty storefront windows0:28facing onto the sidewalk.0:30At the present time, those windows have all been removed and have all been replaced with considered horizontal frames of glass surrounded by warm, reddish wood tones.0:41This is Thomas Holohan. He was drawn in June of 2003. His drawing is counting ten people.0:52Hello, this is Michael from a year and a half in the future.0:55I am rewriting what I wrote here originally.0:58Originally, I had some poorly written sentences describing my disapproval of different aspects of the Patriot Act,1:04balanced against the freedom the web provides,1:06with the ability to post every conspiracy theory about the government that you want.1:11In early June 2004, the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square disaster in China was observed.1:18What caught my eye was stories about how the iconographic man1:22who stood in front of the column of tanks armed with only his shopping bags1:26has never been identified.1:29What I find truly remarkable was the report that very few people in China1:33have ever even seen the famous image.1:35It was never published in China, and if you attempt to find it online,1:39the government has the image blocked.1:41You cannot Google it.1:43This is one of the reasons why the man has never been found,1:46because no one knew of his actions,1:48or for that matter, what happened in Tiananmen Square in the first place.1:52That event is described by some authors to be a Western experience.1:56On its anniversary, it was reported that more people from outside of China2:00visited the square than anyone from inside the country.2:04Any hesitations about the Patriot Act aside,2:07it must be celebrated that we have as much access to information that we do.2:12We just want to be together, said his mother, Iris Hollahan.2:16I have five children. I still have five. One just isn't with me.2:21Holohan, 36, was a quiet man, his mother said.2:24One of those people who showed their intense feelings through steady action.2:28He was a rock for his four siblings, the one they turned to for guidance.2:33How many parents can say they learned from their children?2:36He taught me to face things.← Location 308Heart Three · Location 309Location 310 →
