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.

Guernica

Picasso's Guernica painted on paper and put up with with wheatpaste under a bridge in Los Angeles where there are many bums. One bum with loose dentures brought down beer he buys with his veteran money. I put Guernica here because it shows destruction like when LA has its next earthquake. Then this guy writes MER over my painting.

Nebuchadnezzar

I made a giant eight foot Nebuchadnezzar from William Blake and put it in a highway tunnel which is like a cave from hell. People actually live in that cargo truck.

Garden of Earthly Delights

I put paintings from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch to show how the creatures from hell belong in this awful place. I start to drip paint because the heat and civilization in Los Angeles makes the soul melt. A few months after I put these here that warehouse burned to the ground. I hope none of the bums living in it died.

Coca Cola Plan

This is my favorite Rauschenberg combine, Coca Cola Plan. I think it symbolizes coca cola soda taking over world. Hopefully some of the kids that go by here will get it and go throw out their huge 7-11 slushies and drink some water instead. Not out of this river though because the highway runoff makes it poison.

Guernica Animated

The screaming woman from Guernica is stranded in a trash strewn river in concrete hell.

Obalisk

I made a copy of Rauschenberg Obalisk and put it on the underside of this bridge. I was able to do this due to the fact that this area of the Los Angeles River is essentially lawless.

Monogram

I just saw Robert Rauschenberg: Combines at MOCA. I decided to bring the ideas of Rauschenberg to the streets of this ugly city. I made a stencil of Monogram and put it on the horrible concrete of the LA River.

Garuda Comes to Los Angeles

Now Garduda sweeps into Los Angeles!!!!!!!! I make paintings to try to improve a city that looks
atrocious. Hopefully some residents of greater LA will get out of their awful cars and go try to find some art.