Douglas MillerW 120th St between 5th Ave and Lenox AveHeart Four · Location 428 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Video podcast0:00At the intersection of West 120th Street and Fifth Avenue is an entrance to the Marcus Garvey Park.0:07This drawing was made on a rock almost immediately after entering into the park.0:12Enter the park and turn to the left. You'll see a long ascending staircase up into the hill0:19and just to the right of it is a sloping rock with a flat face facing to the south.0:25This is Douglas Miller. He was drawn in July of 2004. His drawing is counting one person.0:35So these rocks were one of the drawing surfaces?0:38You can imagine what the figure looked like at this point. There just comes that...0:43Stooped?0:44Stooped, sitting, fitting on this flat surface. So this is in Marcus Garvey Park. There's a really0:51the wonderful stone stairwell that sort of snakes up the one hill, the mini0:57mountain in Garvey Park. And at the base of that staircase is large boulder-esque1:05sized rock that has been carved off where it meets the sidewalk making a nice1:11vertical flat plane to draw on.1:16They miss Daddy lying in bed to keep them warm.1:19They miss Daddy hanging them outside of the window by ropes during the family fire drills,1:24making small baskets under their hips.1:27They wonder who will put the lights on the chimney this year.1:30Their dad, Douglas Miller, was a firefighter in Rescue Company 5.← Location 427Heart Four · Location 428Location 429 →
