FROM A MOVING CAR

I’m not sure if it’s growing up in Los Angeles or the fact that we’re in the age of the car as our main means of transportation, or a combination of things, that had lead me to feel that in modernity we have a very displaced relationship to our environment. Our experience of our landscape is usually through a car window, viewing scapes that commonly are not even accessible to a pedestrian. Here are some views from a moving car's window.

Farmer Johns Factory in the City of Vermin, I mean the City of Vernon. (is that Don Bolles?)The City of Vernon “has the smallest population of any incorporated city in Southern California; most of the city's land area is occupied by industrial facilities” like Farmer Johns slaughterhouse/meat packaging.

Thinking about what goes on beyond the painted façade makes me want to hurl. I thank god that I haven’t eaten red meat since I was eight. The smell of it cooking disgusts me.



A break from the visual overload.

The High Desert

Can you see them.
6th St. Bridge Downtown Los Angeles.



"Constructed in 1932, the 6th Street Bridge is an important engineering landmark in the City of Los Angeles. It is one of a set of twelve historic Los Angeles River bridges. With an overall length of 3,500 ft. it is considered the longest bridge span crossing the L.A. River. It is a critical east-west transportation link between Downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights and it under consideration for the National Register. The concrete in the 6th Street Viaduct has been subject to a chemical reaction, known as Alkai Silica Reaction (ASR) causing significant deterioration of the structure."