Robert George LeBlancE 106th St between 2nd Ave and 3rd AveHeart Four · Location 461 · 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 podcast0:00This drawing was made at the bottom of an invisible brick castle.0:05On the northwest corner of East 106th Street and 2nd Avenue is a prairie of concrete.0:13This concrete prairie comes in lots of different shades of grey and pink.0:18At the edge of the concrete is Met Food Market and a Chase Bank.0:22Between those two is the bottom of what looks like the tower to a castle made of brick.0:30The drawing was made in the center of this rounded form.0:33This is Robert George LeBlanc.0:36He was drawn in July of 2004.0:40His drawing is counting one person.0:45And had one of my small handful of run-ins with the law.0:49It was a scenario I walked into with quite a bit of nervousness and told the policeman0:57what I was doing.0:58And he was sort of on security detail for the bank that we're looking at, a Chase, next1:04to a Met Food Market.1:05And there's this beautiful cylindrical space that connects the two.1:10And I drew on that brick wall of the cylindrical space.1:13And, you know, a middle-aged law enforcement officer approached me and wanted to know what I was doing1:20and was kind of concerned about my activities.1:23And after I had spoken with him for a short while, he gave me the green light to just finish up my drawing,1:29take the pictures, and take it down.1:31It was a little bit tense, though. I talked to him also.1:33So as the drawing's happening, I came around the corner and engaged him1:38him so that the drawing could move forward and he made it very, very, very clear that1:44he was creating a window for us at the expense of his training and the rules that he is trying1:52to enforce, which include $500 violations for any mark applied to a wall, any mark.2:00I tried to get into semantics with him about it, saying, well, you know, it's a temporary2:05line, not too dissimilar from a shadow or snow or a leaf or a mud, and sort of trying2:12to see if he would bite on the idea that it was no intention in any way of being permanent,2:18and that didn't fly.2:20A mark is a mark is a mark in that conversation.2:24Robert LeBlanc's insatiable desire to see the world meant he would not even have embarked2:29on one trip when he would already be sketching out the next.2:32We were due to leave for Argentina right after September 11, said his wife, Andrea LeBlanc.2:39Then we had tickets on the desk to go to India.2:42We were planning to go to Sweden in the summer.2:45Last year, we celebrated his birthday [unclear].← Location 460Heart Four · Location 461Location 462 →
