Christine Lee HansonMarcus Garvey Park between W 120th St and W 121st StHeart Four · Location 429 · 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 16Show all 16 photographsVideo podcast0:00At the end of 5th Avenue at West 120th Street is an entrance to Marcus Garvey Park.0:05As you enter, go to the left, pass by the long, snaking, ascending stairwell on your right, and take the first path on your right.0:16As you walk along the path, a one-foot-thick concrete wall will slowly rise up, ascending to approximately four feet.0:24At its highest point, this thickly painted green wall hosted this family of three facing to the west.0:34This is Christine Lee Hanson.0:37She was drawn in July of 2004.0:41Her drawing is counting one person.0:44We should visit this concrete wall over here, only just to point to it and express a lot of sadness.0:52Why?0:54That green wall right there takes the exponential sadness of losing one life to losing, as you saw back on Riverside, a life in the sun.1:07And this wall right here hosted a draw on a group of three people, which was a father, a mother, and a daughter.1:17So, you know, it's whatever expression of sadness we have multiplied by a minimum of three.1:25The Hanson family was on their way to California vacation.1:29Christine Lee Hanson, 3, was on her first trip to Disneyland.← Location 428Heart Four · Location 429Location 430 →
