Susan Kim HansonMarcus Garvey Park between W 120th St and W 121st StHeart Four · Location 431 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Video podcast0:00At the end of Fifth 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,0:12and 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.0:33This is Sue Kim Louie Hansen.0:36She was drawn in July of 2004.0:40Her drawing is counting one person.0:45Obviously, this is your medium that you've been working in for 17 years,0:48and so I can understand why, at the beginning of thinking about this project,0:54in the medium that you work in, but how does tape work for this specific project?0:59Colin, was that you the other day or was it Jay who we walked past, like a wall that had some,1:05maybe like a permanent spray paint stencil piece and maybe this was Jay who said,1:10after making temporary street art for so long I can't imagine making permanent street art?1:15Yeah, that was Jay.1:17But it's definitely, there's definitely truth in that. I mean, I've done a very small amount1:22amount of graffiti when I was younger and I have that same feeling now that I can't1:26imagine why you would want to permanently change surfaces like that when it's refreshing1:34to do it in a temporary fashion.1:37It's a state of mind about how you approach even just artwork and I guess the biggest1:43The biggest fundamental law that's being exhibited here is the idea of process over product.1:52So we are focusing our energies a lot on the process and the immediate aftermath of that process.2:00But the product itself, in this case, is this completely shifting collection of results.2:08The Hansen family was on their way to California vacation at Boston University.2:14Colleagues and professors of Sue Kim Hansen's plan to continue work she seemed near completing2:20after years of study, said Dr. Hardy Cornfield, Hansen's thesis advisor.← Location 430Heart Four · Location 431Location 432 →
