Heather Lee SmithCentral Park between E 85th St and E 86th StHeart Four · Location 347 · Drawn July 2003Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Video podcast0:00This drawing was done from the grassy materials provided to us by a baseball field north of the0:06Oval in the Great Lawn in Central Park. At the Oval's 1130 position, there's an entrance to0:13another path between the baseball fields and the Arthur Ross Pintum. Follow the path counterclockwise0:18back towards the baseball fields and you'll be traveling along a path with a wood fence0:23constructed out of two sets of horizontal logs.0:26Your second lamppost on the left is numbered 8557.0:32If you had the lamppost behind you0:33and you were to draw a straight line between yourself,0:36the tree, and second base,0:38this drawing was made out of the grassy remains from mowing0:41halfway between the tree and the second base position0:44on the baseball diamond.0:46This is Heather Lee Smith.0:48She was drawn in July of 2003.0:52Her drawing is counting one person.0:55So we're at stop number two for today.0:57A mere, what, 35, 40 feet from stop number one.1:02What's interesting in Central Park is that actually from here,1:05where we're standing next to this baseball diamond,1:07we can see location 346.1:12We're standing at 347.1:14I can see 348, 349.1:17I can see 350 and 351.1:18and then we connect back here in 5.75 miles. We'll return to this location and1:25over there is number 490 right between first and second base on that diamond.1:33So we're very much at the beginning of this trip. Where we're standing right1:37now the drawing was made with the grass that had been freshly cut so this was a1:44a figure made entirely of the materials we're standing on.1:48Nice little relief sculpture.1:51So it was dimensional, it wasn't just like a flat sort of outline.1:54Yeah, it was human, as human as grass can be.1:59Since we're drawing life size, when we draw with tape and we're just drawing lines,2:04[unclear], we have to jump over a fence.2:05An insinuation only of the person's volume, since we are drawing the outline.2:13but where our uses of materials change in Central Park and we start to actually2:19we start to construct the actual volume of people that's when it starts to hit2:23closer to home because we have a couple of a couple locations where the people2:29were represented by bulking of materials and that's when you start to feel like2:37you're making a person as opposed to giving a suggestion of where a person is or how much2:46space they occupied in life. And by that just addition of volume, we found ourselves in2:53a very sort of tricky emotional space because our main goal with all the drawings, of course,3:00is to try to give a sense of them as living or animated or having...3:06They're never static because it's critical to us3:10that they're representations of a person as a living entity.3:16Is that fairly close to home?3:18Yeah.3:19The volume brings it into another dimension3:22that makes you really think about3:25not only did this person who's now deceased3:28[unclear] occupy a space that's physically empty,3:32but obviously there's an emotional void there as well.3:34The dimensional aspect of a relief figure3:37just makes that all more clear.3:39Raised in California and graduate3:41of California State University at Fullerton,3:44Smith had been engaged for a year3:46to Mike Jammin, a former coworker.← Location 346Heart Four · Location 347Location 348 →
