Robert LaneCentral Park between W 90th St and W 89th StHeart Four · Location 360 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Download photograph 13Show all 13 photographsVideo podcast0:00This drawing's location is just inside Central Park, east of West 90th Street.0:06If you enter into the park from West 90th, you're crossing over a short bridge made of large, dark, brown stones.0:16The bridge has two slightly ominous, arching entrances underneath it.0:21The entrance that faces to the south hosted this drawing.0:24The figure is drawn on the left side on the stone caddy corner to the heavy vertical metal gate protecting the entrance.0:34To get to this entrance, he'd have to jump over a short wire fence and traverse through some vegetation down a small hill.0:43If you stand in front of the entrance, you can see underneath the bridge to the gate on the other side.0:49This is Robert Lane. He was drawn in July of 2004. His drawing is counting one person.0:58Oh look at this, a tunnel.1:01If you ever get a chance to walk and explore Central Park, you find all these beautiful little bridges and these heavy stone arched tunnel spaces.1:13A lot of those tunnel spaces are blocked off by ancient looking metal barred doors and1:21gates.1:21We're looking down a collection of dense vegetation at one of these entrances that you can't get1:28to.1:29The gate sort of opens up into nothingness.1:31Did you make a drawing down there?1:32Yes.1:33That space just to the left of the gate, right on that interior surface right there.1:39So the sort of inner wall of the archway.1:43Yeah.1:44There's a drawing of a fireman and it's framed by all of this.1:50All these tall trees arching up with the apartment complex filtering behind it.1:58And then this sort of awkward wall and this alluring tunnel space.2:02Oh yeah, it's worth saying too that I witnessed the remnants of the tape from this drawing2:07years after it was done. I think possibly two years after the drawing was made a2:12hand was still visible and some of the tape was still falling falling off of2:17the wall. We returned to this location a month ago and I checked again and it was2:21all gone. You just get kind of a special little thrill when you walk by and see2:26your remnant like you know a secret that no one else knows. Yeah.2:29Yeah, I guess you could say like that.2:32When we re-walked some of these paths this year,2:36we found a couple of hints of tape that were as big as a fingernail,2:40and even that was a joy.2:43But his favorite hobby was cooking.2:46Mr. Lane would have turned 29 on November 29, 2001,2:52and his family had planned to take a cake lighted with candles2:55to the side of the World Trade Center on that day.← Location 359Heart Four · Location 360Location 361 →
