It’s about time to wrap up the 2010 season of Culprit Sessions in LA. While setting out on the final installment, I wanted to look back on the previous seven posters.
Now, I personally have never been to LA, but I’d like to think this gives me some sort of clumsily misguided notion of exactly what the place is, and therefore an artistic jumping off point. These are my imagined LA landscapes, combining an unabashedly uninformed mental picture with stereotypes and cliches (swimming pools, traffic jams) to create some sort of arid, hazy dreamscape. LA is very likely more than just monumental expressway interchanges shuttling barely-there sun worshipers from one swimming pool to the next, all the while bombarded with palm trees and roadside billboards. But for my sake, it’s all the better if it is.
