Allan TarasiewiczAve C between E 3rd St and E 2nd StHeart One · Location 71 · Drawn June 2004A panoramic view from the tape drawingLOOK AROUND AVE CDrag the panorama or use the arrow keys.Drag the panorama.PAN PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Video podcast0:00On the west side of Avenue C, between East 2nd and East 3rd Street, is a building with an umbrella motif.0:09The address is 2123, and the drawing was done surrounded by the stenciled and painted umbrellas.0:28This is Allan [unclear].0:31He was drawn in June of 2004.0:35His drawing is counting one person.0:41Often it was [unclear] reappropriated by the black [unclear].0:56Oh wow.1:20We started cutting out all the figures and then really became to identify with the figures1:24as a representation of the people we're drawing.1:28Like, there's the icons that we have to work with.1:31And that it could be at its extremes1:35having all those figures on one object1:38[unclear] be really [unclear].1:40It [unclear] to as post-[unclear].1:44Alan, 45, became a firefighter at 33,1:48already having traveled wildly and honed many skills.1:51A Staten Island native, he met Patricia1:54stationed in Italy with the Marines.1:56He went on to work as a sheet metal worker in California,2:00a coal miner in Colorado.2:02The New York Fire Department, Patricia said,2:05was his ultimate goal, or nearly so,2:07since he kept volunteering for a more challenging duty.2:11His last assignment with Rescue Company 5 on Staten Island2:14came after he used his free time to learn advanced scuba skills.← Location 70Heart One · Location 71Location 72 →