New Direction



Pantages
2008 Mixed Media
in 36 x 30 x 3

Grafitti Wars
2008 Mixed Media
in 36 x 30 x 3


I recently decided to start a series of works depicting Los Angeles. The idea has crossed my mind many times but I never quite found a way "into" the subject matter, which happens to be my hometown. I took these photos a year ago and finally got around to making the work these past few months. The funny thing was I revisited Downtown L.A. this past weekend to search for more subjects and found that each of the three buildings I depicted have changed. The building in "Grafitti Wars" has been totally restored and the graffiti is long gone. The Pantages building was also without grafitti. The Broadway Arcade Building seems to be in the process of restoration and the written signage I depicted has been removed. This used to always happen to buildings I chose for subject matter in Venice, Italy as well. No sooner than I made a work than the buildings would be restored. I used to joke that I had to make my work before they restored everything. It's funny how my work becomes a kind of historical document- documenting an ephemeral patina, a moment in time when decay and, in some cases graffiti defines a monument and then is gone, while the monument remains.






Broadway Arcade Building
2008 Mixed Media
in 27 x 35 x 3