Paul MitchellE 121st St between Lexington Ave and Park AveHeart Four · Location 438 · 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 13Show all 13 photographsVideo podcast0:00On East 121st Street, west of Lexington, is a super tall apartment building.0:07And at its base, it is painted brown on top of the cinder block.0:11Follow the wall, eventually the brown cinder block catty corners with the deteriorating chain link fence.0:18This drawing was made on the brown cinder block facing to the south.0:23This is Lieutenant Paul Mitchell.0:26He was drawn in July of 2004.0:30His drawing is counting one person.0:33We feel very comfortable with the terminology of the Hope Project.0:37However, if you were to say, what's the name of your body of work in Manhattan, there's a blank.0:43And we realize that we haven't actually named the project.0:46We're like, wait, New York City Project? No, that was so 2003.0:49We're behind.0:51What about, like, the New York City Hope Project?0:53No, well we, Colin and I are waiting on a bus in Kennedy Plaza there in Providence to come down to New York discussing this thing and saying, okay, what is the project about?1:05What is the name of this thing?1:08And the discussion led to this conversation where basically I was saying to Colin, like, you know, it isn't a September 11th project.1:18Because September 11th, as it stands right now, is a, for lack of a better word, a hijacked term that has been used for political means and has been exploited to sort of encompass not just loss of life, but all the terror that goes with it and all the implications of connections that lead up to it.1:41And it's just muddy, muddy, muddy water at this point.1:45So we have no interest in it as a September 11th project.1:51In Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at the Tillery Street Firehouse,1:55Big Daddy Mitchell taught everything.1:58How to jump in when trouble calls, what to grab when you hear seven bells,2:02the code sending ladder 110 on a run.2:05Lieutenant Mitchell was someone the first-year provisioners looked up to.2:10A senior man on the truck, on the back step as a fireman, in the front seat after his promotion to lieutenant.← Location 437Heart Four · Location 438Location 439 →
