John PaolilloCentral Park between E 86th St and E 85th StHeart Four · Location 490 · 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 15Download photograph 16Download photograph 17Download photograph 18Show all 18 photographsVideo podcast0:00This drawing's location is between first and second base on Great Lawn Field Number 8.0:06If you're in Central Park and you head to the north of the oval in the Great Lawn,0:12you'll find two baseball fields. The field that's moderately more to the south is labeled Great Lawn0:18Field Number 8 and the drawing was etched into this kept flat dirt surface with our fingers0:25and filled with pine needles from the pine trees just to the east of the baseball diamond.0:31This is John Paolillo.0:33He was drawn in July of 2004.0:37His drawing is counting ten people.0:40One of the last drawings, and these were fantastic drawings to be doing.0:44It was just a good day, and the whole team was all together.0:47There was a large number of us here at that point in time,0:50and the weather was just as beautiful as it is now.0:52but it would have been later on in the day with like a real sense that these drawings were just about done.1:00You know, one fraction of this gargantuan effort had been taken care of and that's sort of an important milestone for us.1:09So how did you celebrate? I mean, did you celebrate when you finished the last of the drawings?1:13We got a little ice cream or something. Ice cream has continued to be the carrot.1:19So we're now on the baseball diamond. Was this last drawing made on the baseball diamond?1:25In the sand. A wonderful return to like simple sandbox drawing.1:31Mike just demonstrated for us the process used to create this figure.1:34The process that we use to inform a lot of our youngest educational participants.1:41We tell them to simply draw something on the wall with their finger.1:45and that freedom, that lack of dedication to a mark,1:49allows kids to start thinking in the same way1:51we ultimately have them thinking about with tape.1:53If you make a line with tape and you're unhappy with it,1:56you can remove it really simply.1:58It's actually harder to get rid of that line2:00than it is to get rid of a line with tape,2:02but Mike just outlined our last drawing here2:06with his finger and we took some pictures.2:09It's filled in with some pine angels,2:11so this drawing not only was an outline,2:14materials in the middle of it. So we're at the end here. Anything else you want to say?2:19What do you want to say? What do you think you've learned from this project?2:27You just want to say a lot would be I learned a thing or two about what balance is and is not.2:35We all learned that lesson. Unfortunately, some of us haven't had the luxury of2:39applying the lessons learned. Lessons. It's a true luxury when you can't apply it.2:44We learned how to get close to people without ever meeting them.2:48That's the biggest thing I've learned.2:50It's like, you know what, reflection of James' sentiment that he feels like he's met people.2:55Mr. James Leahy, he's a police officer, the very first person that was drawn on this project shortly after September 11th.3:05I could, if you asked me if I met him, if I wasn't thinking, I'd say yes.3:12The amount of effort a handful of people can make, we have a lot to learn about what exactly3:17the repercussions of that effort will be, the impact of that effort, but it's awesome3:24to understand how much can be done by a handful of dedicated people who support one another.3:36Josephine Paololo remembered her brother-in-law's unshakable dedication to his family,3:40his wife Donna and their children Jake and Ella.3:44He could have come back from taking his kids to soccer after a 24-hour shift3:49and he would still be the first one to volunteer to babysit for me, she said.← Location 489Heart Four · Location 490
