Scott KopytkoCentral Park between W 85th St and W 86th StHeart Four · Location 348 · Drawn March 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Video podcast0:00This drawing's location was on a small boulder in Central Park.0:04In the middle of Central Park is the oval.0:06If you go to the 1130 position, you'll find a path circling the Otharos Pintum.0:12Follow that path counterclockwise and you'll see two baseball diamonds on your right.0:18Eventually and shortly on your left, you'll see a solitary large rock.0:23This hulking mass is beneath two tall trees, and the drawing was made out of sticks gathered from the dirt and soil surrounding this large object.0:35This is Scott Capitco. He was drawn in March of 2004. His drawing is counting one person.0:43Where is the location we are right now, and what was the figure here? I see a giant boulder underneath some trees.0:49Without thinking too much, I decided this would be a, this three-dimensional mass would be a location.0:56And then defining how you represent someone on that location is a different thing altogether.1:03And if you stand at this rock and look around, the only loose materials you see are small, short, thin sticks.1:10Most of them are pretty dry that have fallen from the canopy of trees above us.1:14been broken up by pedestrians and just sort of littered the perimeter of this1:21of this boulder and since that is the most bountiful material here and we1:27really wanted to make an attempt to since we had access to new materials1:31outside of tape make everybody as individualistic as possible we set about1:37gathering these sticks and what's a good word it's not piling but arranging them1:44fashion where we were able to create the silhouette filled in with the sticks on1:50this rock and it sort of bends over the edges. It's a balancing act.1:55It's interesting because when I saw this rock I thought oh that must be where the next1:59drawing is but it was more because it's it's an an ideal flat surface in the2:06middle of this natural landscape that would lend itself to a tape drawing but2:10you weren't using tape out here which is kind of cool actually in the sense that2:14I mean, it makes me think of what they tell you when you go camping, which is, you know, leave no trace.2:18And in a way, like you were leaving a very visible, beautiful trace, but you also weren't depositing any sort of foreign materials in this landscape that weren't here before.2:26It's a weird sort of Andy Goldsworthy meets urban graffiti documentation intersection.2:32It's just a huge part of the process for us to be engaging physically with an urban, and in this case specifically, urban park space.2:44He liked the World Trade Center area so much that he had himself stationed at a nearby firehouse.2:50How ironic.2:51Scott was selfless, kind, honest, funny, and a good friend.2:56We miss him dearly and will never forget him.← Location 347Heart Four · Location 348Location 349 →
