Ruth Magdaline McCourtE 97th St between Park Ave and Lexington AveHeart Four · Location 474 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Video podcast0:00This drawing was made on an ever-changing surface on East 97th Street between Park and Lexington.0:08Closer to Park Avenue, on the north side of the street, you'll find a hand-painted address for 101B and 101C.0:19Those addresses are over two small doors with a decorative pane of half-glass over each of them.0:27To the right of those is a retractable metal garage door that for years has been a catalyst for many types of mark making.0:38Our drawing of this mother and daughter was made in the center of this door.0:42I'd missed the marks that existed there several years ago.0:46As of spring 2006, the door has been spray painted by its owners.0:50Industrial red for the metal and yellow for the words no parking.0:55This is Ruth Magdaline McCourt. She was drawn in July of 2004. Her drawing is counting one person.1:04You rattled off a list of subjects when we were sitting down that you wanted to make sure we touched on.1:08They included your relationship to the victims.1:12There exists an inevitable uneasiness that we've all been carrying around with us for the last couple of years.1:21years, we've trapped ourselves between our good intentions and the possible negative1:27outcome. And, well here it goes. The memorial efforts are being made out there. Part of1:35the reason they're stagnated, part of the reason they're not moving forward is because1:38they gotta please everybody? Question mark. Including the families. Including the families,1:43including all the individual organizations. Not only that, they gotta please them enough1:48that they can get funding to do it.1:51If you can't appease everybody, then you're not going to get your money and it's not going to happen.1:56So it's, since those are being done in a pseudo-democratic fashion,2:00that project doesn't exist.2:03Ours was not done in a democratic fashion at all.2:07So the upside of that is we have done something from our heart2:12in a fairly swift manner with an unbelievable amount of hours behind it.2:18The negative side being, you know what, I can't think of a negative side.2:25Ms. McCourt, who was flying with her four-year-old daughter, Juliana,2:29and Ms. Farley-Hackel said goodbye in the early morning hours2:32at Logan International Airport in Boston on September 11th and boarded their planes.2:37The women had planned on meeting in Los Angeles and taking Juliana to Disneyland.← Location 473Heart Four · Location 474Location 475 →
