Peter HansonMarcus Garvey Park between W 120th St and W 121st StHeart Four · Location 430 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Video 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,0:13and take the first path on your right.0:15As you walk along the path, a one-foot-thick concrete wall will slowly rise up,0:21ascending to approximately four feet.0:24At its highest point, this thickly painted green wall hosted this family of three.0:32This is Peter Hanson.0:34He was drawn in July of 2004.0:38His drawing is counting one person.0:43Within the act of drawing with tape, we have this nice flat piece of paper, colored.0:49it is its color in relationship to the surface that is on that sort of gives0:54you a sense of it having any depth, having any significance1:00whatsoever. The tape itself starts at one inch but can be easily ripped down into1:05smaller pieces and as soon as you start to make that commitment that you can1:09rip it down or add several pieces to make it thicker, you've got the the range1:15of a calligraphy pen or a paintbrush is an unusually fat line. I mean to be1:20drawing with a one inch line is a very strange thing. Usually that thickness of1:26line is designated primarily to painters and their selection of brushes or spray1:32cans has a similar thickness of line. The joy of manipulating that material and1:39and being able to correct the material.1:42Since it's not permanent, you can shift it and migrate it towards what looks right,1:49so it's never static, even for a second.1:52The Hansen family was on their way to California vacation.1:57Peter Hanson was a software company vice president2:00with the presence of mind to phone his parents from the doomed aircraft.2:04Peter Hanson, easygoing and brilliant,2:06had stumbled onto a career in sales by creating a spin-off business while2:11following the Grateful Dead around the country.← Location 429Heart Four · Location 430Location 431 →
