Michael D. MullanE 110th St between 2nd Ave and 1st AveHeart Four · Location 456 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Video podcast0:00The Strong is made on a grey door on East 110th Street between 2nd and 1st Avenue.0:07On the north side of the street, coming off of 2nd Avenue, it's a building that's made of red brick, followed by a building that's made of beige brick.0:15At the base of the beige brick building are three stairwells leading up to three entrances for 305, 307, and 309.0:25At the base of 309 and three stairs down from the sidewalk is a gray door.0:33This gray door has offered an invitation to many types of mark makers0:36and several years ago provided a frame for the drawing of this figure.0:41This is Michael D. Mullan.0:43He was drawn in July of 2004.0:47His drawing is counting one person.0:50If you take the hours we were working and count them as one person's hours, we were0:55working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.0:58So we actually had the equivalent of one person never stopping, a pure honest to God automatron1:05working for seven months in a row.1:07That's crazy because it wasn't automatron.1:09At a bare minimum.1:10Interesting.1:14There is an old Irish expression, may you live every day of your life.1:19lived every day of his life. An avid Yankees fan, he took it as a personal insult if they lost.1:25He loved plays and concerts, and oh, when he played the piano,1:29you could not tell the difference between Michael D. Mullan and Jerry Lee Lewis.← Location 455Heart Four · Location 456Location 457 →
