Thomas MingioneE 121st St between Park Ave and Madison AveHeart Four · Location 435 · 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 podcast0:00On East 121st Street, west of Park Avenue, on the north side of the street is a long chain-link fence0:08with brown vertical slats penetrating the fence to create the illusion of a flat wall.0:14The chain-link fence meets a 20-foot stretch of wide red bricks,0:20and drawings are made 10 feet to the right of that brick surface.0:25This is Thomas Mingione. He was drawn in July of 2004. His drawing is counting one person.0:36If you look at the catalyst of the project as a continuation of Oklahoma City,0:43Oklahoma City to hospital work, hospital work to the New York City project,0:47in dispersive hospital work all happening at the same time,0:51the central body of work made in Oklahoma City0:55was something that was referred to as the Hope Mural,0:58named by the firemen who were there.1:01They named your mural in Oklahoma City?1:03They named our mural. They were calling it that.1:05And [unclear] like, okay, it's the Hope Mural.1:08So that's the name of one piece.1:10And so we decided that maybe in an attempt to make the connection clear to ourselves1:14and sort of give a title to like the whole effort we would just call it the1:18hope project and the whole project sort of encompassed all of that time spent1:24using tape as a medium for healing a medium for resolution a medium for1:32communication where the tape in all of the cases is being applied under the1:38rules of healing which is you put it up and it stays up for the duration that1:44needs to happen. So when we work in a hospital, that work goes up as long as the patient is1:48there. We do our own public work, the work goes up and we take it down. There's two different1:54methods for how the tape is applied. So the whole project referred to a method of applying1:59tape and why we were applying it that way.2:01Thomas Mingione was a Brooklyn firefighter with Division 15, Battalion 38 on September 11th2:08of 2001.← Location 434Heart Four · Location 435Location 436 →
