Michael LynchAmsterdam Ave between W 101st St and W 100th StHeart Four · Location 377 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Video podcast0:00The 830 Amsterdam Avenue houses.0:03This building is found on Amsterdam, just north of West 100th Street, on the west side of the street.0:10The main entrance is a fantastic collection of small square panels of glass, brown wooden doors, protected lockways, directories, red concrete, and stainless steel platings.0:22To the left of that jumble is a light blue gridded wall interrupted by one brown metal rectangle.0:31This drawing was made on the section of wall to the left and below the brown rectangle0:35in Caddy Corner to the black gate to the left of it.0:40This is Michael Lynch.0:43He was drawn in July of 2004.0:46His drawing is counting one person.0:50I had a nice interaction with a group of young men who were residents of, if not this building, then buildings in this neighborhood.0:58And it was just a matter of having an interaction with a group of people I usually don't have an ability to interact with because it's like a total socioeconomic divide.1:09We found a common ground in tape art.1:12They were super psyched to be seeing what I was doing, understood exactly what I was doing.1:16were pretty psyched about tape art as a medium,1:19that somebody was drawing with tape, something so simple as that,1:22and were happy to have it on their building.1:24Felt like their building was a part of a cultural doing,1:28and it was great to just hang out and talk with these guys.1:32Running on the shore at the Jersey Beach where he lived,1:35doing chores while carrying daughter Caroline in a backpack carrier,1:39or working out at the downtown Manhattan gym.1:42him. At 8.33 a.m., he was on the phone with his mother making plans for a birthday party a week1:49later.← Location 376Heart Four · Location 377Location 378 →
