Mychal JudgeE 66th St between 2nd Ave and 1st AveHeart Three · Location 327 · Drawn July 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 11Video podcast0:00East of 2nd Avenue on 66th Street, as you can imagine, are a lot of buildings.0:07The location for this drawing is remarkably easy to find.0:11If you can find the numbers 301 embossed with gold letters into a stone surface that is also pink,0:21then you are standing in front of the drawing's location.0:25The figure is drawn with green tape on this pink surface.0:30to the left of 301 in an area framed by a gigantic muted yellow concrete border.0:38A tree is directly behind you on the sidewalk.0:44This is Mychal Judge.0:47He was drawn in July of 2003.0:50His drawing is counting 10 people.0:55Framing.0:55These silhouettes celebrate the surfaces that they are on.1:00Sometimes these drawings serve a similar purpose to walking around with a frame and holding it up against different surfaces1:07in the hopes of increasing the surface's value or segregating it off as its own uniquely bordered area.1:15The device of framing is the thing of our daily lives.1:18Every photograph, billboard, display window, t-shirt, movie, and magazine that we read are all products of selectively framing the content to pursue and arouse the viewer.1:32One of the reasons I love drawing in public spaces is that though our silhouette drawings frame an area, the drawing exists in an unframed space, the public space, and is framed only by our field of vision.1:45When we do the drawings for Heart 1, the documentation will expand to include 360-degree panoramic photographs.1:53These will help illustrate the relationship between the figures and the public spaces they are in.1:59Back at home, on the computers, we remove the tape-outlined figures from their environments2:04so that their bodies consist solely of the surfaces that the tape is framing.2:09This fleshy, shiny, proud surface we drew my cow judge on was chosen with that intention in mind.2:16The materials become a new portrait in themselves, portraits of the city and the person who we drew.2:24When a boatload of Chinese refugees were shipwrecked in the Rockaways, he was one of the first there,2:30handing out blankets and coffee and telling them jokes.2:33He had movie star looks and a tremendous ability to speak and sing.← Location 326Heart Three · Location 327Location 328 →
