Alona AbrahamW 105th St between Broadway and West End AveHeart Four · Location 383 · 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 13Download photograph 14Download photograph 15Download photograph 16Download photograph 17Download photograph 18Show all 18 photographsVideo podcast0:00This drawing is on a black rectangle west of Broadway on West 105th Street.0:05On the south side of the street and to the left of the entrance for 250,0:10is a black refrigerator-sized box protruding out onto the sidewalk.0:15The drawing was made in the center of this obvious canvas,0:19and the box is very difficult to miss.0:21The bottom of the door is showing more wear and tear,0:24and has been rusting away over the last couple of years.0:27This is Alona Abraham.0:30She was drawn in July of 2004. Her drawing is counting one person.0:39I want to say something about the new tourism in the context of a World Trade Center Memorial.0:46A lot of people are going to come to New York City and a lot of the people that come to New York City0:49are going to make the effort to go to the official memorial website.0:53Or not website, that's funny I'd throw that in there.0:56there, the official physical memorial, and be charged to remember, be charged to be handed1:03a very considered curated exhibition designed to present things however its designers and1:11their environments have chosen to.1:13This is a really interesting antithesis to that in a lot of ways where if somebody were1:20were to trace our path in this project, which we've given them the duels to do, they would1:26experience a much different way of seeing the city and understanding what that day might1:33have meant to people all over the city and what their experiences of that day might have1:39been like. And both have pros and cons. I'm not going to pretend that one is better than1:48and the other is just two different approaches to a problem and a need.1:53Who was in Boston on her first trip to the United States.1:57She went whale watching, shopping, and walking in Cambridge,2:01according to a college friend with whom she stayed.2:05Seeing America was one of her dreams.2:07She liked the cool weather, the low prices, the cosmopolitan cities,2:13and for a few weeks she could escape the bombings and shootings.← Location 382Heart Four · Location 383Location 384 →
