Walter HynesE 77th St between 1st Ave and 2nd AveHeart Three · Location 313 · 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's location was on an apartment complex at 315 East 77th Street between 2nd and 1st Avenue.0:09315 is a traditional green awning stretching over the sidewalk.0:14And to the left of it, you'll see a potted plant, a window, maybe with an air conditioner.0:19To the left of that, a black door with the letters IJ on it.0:23And the drawing was made in the brick space between that and a bathroom window.0:28The drawing's foot was stepping onto the first stair leading up to the IJ black door.0:35This is Captain Walter Hynes. He was drawn in June of 2003. His drawing is counting five people.0:48In regards to the previous paragraph, visual language of mine is an awkward sediment. It is0:54It is our visual language, universally.0:57One of the backbones of the methods we have been using with tape art is related directly1:01to a desire to create communication that crosses over the lines of spoken and written language.1:06It is also crucial to us that any demographic, regardless of what exposure they may have1:11had to the arts, can have a base for interpreting the things we are drawing.1:15This base is established on the experience of just being human.1:20Everything we draw we keep on a one-to-one human scale.1:24recreate the flat space that a person's volume in space establishes.1:30Our drawings during this project have given us a means of looking at the total volume of people lost on September 11th.1:36It gives us a way of relating to and understanding what happened.1:41The experience we provide people on the street is that experience one person at a time.1:46We have no true sense of how the digital side of our work is going to weigh up against our experience of drawing.1:51But, in regards to sheer labor, the digital side is outweighing the asphalt side 60 to1:581 minutes.2:01Captain Walter Hynes, who worked in Ladder Company 13 on the Upper East Side, got his2:06law degree by taking evening classes at St. John's University.2:10When neighborhood residents had a legal problem, they sought him out first and often got advice2:15for free.2:17He loved helping people.← Location 312Heart Three · Location 313Location 314 →
