Los Angeles, CA
1629 Fair Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Jen Herzig Smith
Minding the Gap
The words, engraved on metal plates mounted to the fence, come from spending time here. They are poems that acknowledge the beauty of this place. This walkway is a gap like many gaps in Los Angeles. It’s passageway for coyote, opossum and people. Elderberry and Mountain Mahogany hang over the fence providing food and shelter for birds and squirrels. To witness California Morning Glory grow in a few inches of soil, despite concrete underneath, is humbling. The poems were created with gratitude and respect for the Tongva and their care of this land over many years past, present and future.
1631 Fair Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Siân Barlow
Mirroring
This artwork is part of an international collaboration, “Mirroring," which shows works by three artists, who are hosting one another’s self-portraits. These recent years have felt like civilizational thresholds, as well as personal thresholds in each of our lives. Engaging with kindness, and being witnessed by each other, we have been able to move towards seeing ourselves with more clarity.
Siân Barlow used to work as a healthcare advocate, more recently she’s changed direction and become an artist. She makes work about how we are, and how we could be, preferring to ask questions, leaving answers open.
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