The Agenda

Four Hearts: The locations of the figures, plotted on a map of New York, form four hearts. Online, the map becomes three dimensional with the assistance of Google Earth.

Navigation: On many pages you will notice a small cut-out of one of the Hearts or a bar on the side of the page. These points of navigation invite you to move southwest or northwest according to the island of Manhattan and the range of the Hearts. In this way, the web site is also a walking tour.

Heart One: Closest to the World Trade Center. 3-D panorama of the tape-art silhouette which situates the figures in the physical space where they were drawn. As the Hearts progress away from the World Trade Center they become more dimensional.

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by Ashley Mercado

“This wall represents a space that falls exactly on the trajectory of the heart I have drawn on my map. It continues to be a fascinating experience using a seemingly arbitrary line to create the walking journey I am on. Traveling the country doing Tape Art over the years, I have always been aware of the ‘line’ that the car was making across the nation. It never seemed too far-fetched that the car could use the nation’s interstates and side roads to ‘draw’ pictures, icons, or words – some well over a thousand miles high and wide. So, these two-mile-high hearts on the streets of Manhattan are a nice microcosm of that concept. It creates a route I never would have normally followed. And a symbol of love is a good way to connect all the figures together.” http://tapeart.com/hope/nyc/index.php?master=Patrick_Brown