Kathryn L LaBorieE 108th St between 2nd Ave and 1st AveHeart Four · Location 459 · 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 15Show all 15 photographsVideo podcast0:00East of 2nd Avenue on East 108th Street on the north side of the street there used to be an organic oasis.0:08The oasis took the shape of a one-story structure attached to the building that reaches onto 2nd Avenue.0:15A couple years ago the retractable metal gates were painted a Pepto-Bismol pink and the drawing was done on the doorway on its left.0:25As of spring 2006, the organic oasis is gone and a new, slightly shiny, retractable gate0:32has taken its place.0:34This is Catherine L. Labore.0:36She was drawn in July of 2004.0:40Her drawing is counting one person.0:43There is a drawing made here on which surface?0:45This is a funny transformation.0:46See the space between those two buildings?0:49About the size of a Hummer.0:51There's that one small little structure right there, which is the roll-up metal gate, was pink.0:59Bright, bright pink.1:01There might be some remnant of pink in the lower left corner.1:04Really? I see a pink view.1:06There's some pink.1:08It was a fruit shop.1:11I'm inclined to see flowers for some reason. We could check in the photographs.1:15Pretty stark transformation from sort of land to ferry to the sort of utilitarian surface here.1:21I guess we've remarked on this before, but in some ways this project is an amazing study of transformation in a city.1:27It's the sort of constant ebb and flow of change in the physical space.1:30You really get the sense that this place is alive.1:34It used to be an organic oasis and now it looks like a little model of the...1:39An insurance company.1:41Death Star.1:42No, accessories, sorry. I don't know why I said insurance.1:44I said ink. Jennifer's Son ink accessories.1:48She had a ready smile, a robust laugh, said Harriet Williamson,1:52who worked with Catherine at Empress Cruise Lines in Florida in the mid-1990s.1:58She was a tiny thing. I don't think she weighed 100 pounds,2:02but she had this boundless energy and a great sense of adventure.← Location 458Heart Four · Location 459Location 460 →
