Jessica Leigh SachsCentral Park between W 85th St and W 86th StHeart Four · Location 349 · Drawn March 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Video podcast0:00This drawing was made out of pine cones in Central Park.0:03In the Great Lawn, there's an oval path.0:06North of that oval path, there's a path that circles an outcropping of pine trees,0:10Arthur Ross's pine trees.0:12At the north side of that pine tree collection is a long, one-story brick building.0:18It's north of the baseball diamonds.0:20If you went to this one-story brick building and looked south, you'd see a lamp post.0:25The lamp post's number is 549.0:289. Past that lamppost, and slightly to the left, is a pine tree that splits into a trident,0:34about a foot from its base. To the right of that trident is a patch of land surrounded by0:39scattered trees, about the size of a moderately sized swimming pool. The drawing was made out0:44of pine cones, collected from the trees around, and made in the center of that empty area of land.0:50This is Jessica Sachs. She was drawn in March of 2004. Her drawing is counting one person.0:58We're now in the Arthur Ross Pintum.1:01Pintum?1:02I believe that's how to say it.1:03So is that like a grove of pine trees?1:05That's exactly what it is.1:07Which leads us to the most, to an obvious materials connection, which is pine cones.1:13And lots of them.1:15and this patch of grass is surrounded almost entirely by pine trees,1:20and we were fortunate enough at that time to find quite a large volume of pine cones,1:27and so this drawing was made by ferrying as many pine cones as we could1:32from underneath all these 2-1⁄2-story pine trees to a central location that was open to the sky.1:39Knowing a little bit about Mike and your art and your background and the stuff that you're1:44interested in, I know that urban exploration and just sort of being in cities and sort1:49of getting familiar with them is, it seems like a pretty important part of your work.1:53Was there a part of this project that was very much about that?1:56It's the inevitable subset of the tape art process and I think that ultimately2:01that's why we're all attracted to it as I would like to think with almost any, not2:05not just artistic process, but anything that anybody decides to do, sometimes is a decision2:12to fuel the things that they really, really like also. It is the great excuse. So as you2:21just mentioned, tape art provides us with the great excuse to spend time together, travel,2:27Travel, eat together, spend time together, climb buildings, climb trees, walk, spend entire days on our feet, push ourselves too far, be in the blistering heat and the freezing cold, and challenge ourselves.2:43And challenge each other.2:45Yeah.2:45The aspect of competition, friendly competition, we all are very clear in that we are members of a team with specific strengths and a job to do.2:57Specifically in documenting, we looked at it as a friendly competition.3:00All of us doing our best to take the killer photo of the drawing we had just done.3:06The entire project weighs in at between 11,000 and 15,000 photos when the dust settles on all of this.3:15Her goal since her sophomore year had been to land a job at one of the top five accounting houses in the United States.3:23She ended up having her choice at her father's, Stephen.3:27a lot of people to-day live their lives with a lot of gray area but for her it was very black and white he said she was a very determined very strong young lady she was also a devout person← Location 348Heart Four · Location 349Location 350 →
