Cormorants

Cormorants are one of the few animals that can live in this ruined landscape. I made a tribute to them which was promptly covered in spray paint the next week.

Griffith J. Griffith

This is a portrait of Griffith J. Griffith, a British immigrant who made his fortune owning mines and later shot his wife in the face. Griffith gave a bunch of money to Los Angeles to build Griffith Park. He envisioned a continuous natural park that featured a river winding around a large hill. Instead the city created the 5 freeway which cut the river off from the park and led to its almost complete destruction.

Too Short

The rap artist Too Short videotaped his video for Life Is...Too Short just south of this point in the Los Angeles River. A graffiti writer sprays Too Short here. So I put up a portrait of Too Short. The only redeeming factor to all this concrete is the exchange of ideas among those destroying it.

Trujillo's Eye

The DR has great prisitine nature, but it always serves to remind that this is because the country was tightly controlled by one dictator who was equally famous for his ultra-violence.

Orchid Skull

Everywhere in the woods of the DR there are pretty natural things but also the stink of death from recent years of government brutality that penetrated every corner of the island.

Extinct Manatee

This is in the Dominican Republic. Manatee skeletons will remind people that they killed all their manatees to make ugly hotels on the beach.

Fossils

These dinosaur skeletons were on a fence in front of an abandoned gas station near the entrance of the 5 freeway. Hopefully some of the drivers thought about the liquefied dinosaurs that power the millions of cars and make all this smog and concrete. Some guy put a wrestling poster on abandoned gas station behind it.