BEAUTIFUL:DECAY
"All the fish in the sea, all the tea in China" 36" x 22" Lamba Photo print face mounted on Plexiglass (Detail)
Flowers are beautiful. Flowers are numerous and easy to ignore. Growing everywhere even in downtown Los Angeles, walked past on the way to lunch, driven past on the way to work. Flowers fight, they crowd, roots push and shove for their share of the water. They race to bathe in the sunlight before another flower shades them out. Pedals open in the mid day sun, and close in the evening
Obituaries are from the LA Times and the deceased last day is tied closely to the dates that the photos were taken.All to often we do not stop to read even the briefest summation of 20, 30, 50 or 100 years of a human life on this planet. Beautiful flowers passed over.
These photos are from the first three months of 2009, at what currently is the State Historical Park in downtown Los Angeles, former site of a train depot, a native American settlement, a wet land of the Los Angeles river and at one time the play ground for woolly mammoth and field mice. (Prints available upon request from the artist)
