Douglas Joel StoneCentral Park between W 88th St and W 89th StHeart Four · Location 356 · Drawn March 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Video podcast0:00This drawing was done on a tree in Central Park.0:03The drawing was done on a birch tree.0:04To find that birch tree, you can head to the southwest corner of the reservoir,0:09find the bridle path, and start heading north.0:11To your right, you'll see a valley of grass.0:14If you were to enter that valley of grass and keep walking forward,0:18the first tree you encounter in the center of the shallow valley0:22is a birch tree with long, drooping arms.0:26This drawing was done with tape, half on the birch tree, half on the ground, facing to0:32the south.0:33This is Douglas Joel Stone.0:36He was drawn in March of 2004.0:40His drawing is counting one person.0:45James has been working on this project recently confessed that one of the emotional conflicts0:51that he was really beginning to feel setting in.0:54And I feel the same thing is that0:57with some of the individuals that we've drawn0:59and occasionally some of the people that they're counting,1:02because we've spent time with some of those biographies.1:05Also, the sheer repetition of reading the names,1:08seeing the photographs, seeing the drawings,1:11reflecting on them as individuals over and over and over1:14again leads us to the belief1:18that we may have actually spent time with that person.1:22Why is it an emotional conflict or why does it feel troublesome in some way?1:28We don't know anybody from the World Trade Center. Nobody. But we have been very1:37cautious, out of respect, to approach that we are drawing their loved ones and we1:43sort of find ourselves in a tricky place because you feel a very deep closeness1:48this in some case to some individuals based on information from your computer.1:53Reading biographies posted by their families, reading forums that have comments detailing2:04personal moments in their lives experienced by friends and co-workers and family, having2:12Having swimming in your mind little tiny anecdotes about them as human beings, their good qualities2:19and sometimes occasionally their bad qualities, so we start to get a fuller picture of that2:23person.2:24Having the photographs, the images of that person readily available in your mind to connect2:31with that material and then taking the reflective moment to actually travel with their name2:38in pocket to a location to draw them and spend time rendering them intentionally as an individual2:47i can't imagine ever drawing a single individual in new york city ever again maybe a mural that2:55has a whole load of people and obviously not specific people thematically in a new direction2:59but I can't imagine under what weird circumstances, God willing, we ever come to New York and draw a specific person.3:11Douglas Stone was a native New Englander with a dry sense of humor.3:16He was coming back to see his son off to UCLA.3:20He was a really honest, straightforward person, said his son Zach, who was starting his freshman year.3:26I used to tell people that he wasn't a fake person.← Location 355Heart Four · Location 356Location 357 →
