Channels and Runoff is a series of photographs that examines the complexities of the concrete infrastructure of the Los Angeles River. This work considers landscape architecture, human intervention, and the disappearing natural environments.
The Los Angeles River is a kind of paradise lost with issues that many groups invested in the ecologies surrounding environmental justice look to confront.
There are hundreds of access points from Canoga Park where the river begins down to Long Beach(roughly 51 miles), where the river proceeds into the Pacific Ocean.
I am interested in studying both the design of the channels, watersheds, how the natural areas attempt to sustain life and what impacts marginalized communities endure.
When looking at the Los Angeles River, we see a superstructure that exists in both the public and private realms. The labor involved seems to be a work in progress.
Urbanism and architectural processes invite us to experience developments for a controlled future. For over a decade, I have been researching landscape design using photography, video, and sound.
