In Los Angeles, I observed a new life and researched the city’s history.

While I was living in West Los Angeles, I observed a new life and researched into the history of the city.

I was overwhelmed by the vastness of the concrete jungle and huge freeways. I met good friends who were Mexican Americans who showed me an alternative culture in the east of LA. I combined images from both and created etchings in the printmaking studios of UCLA.

I found that the indigenous Indians had and made a place of healing and worship on the site of the’ La Brea Tar Pits’ museum. This had also been a site for the drilling of oil, this process discovered the remains of extinct sabre tooth cats and mammoths that had been trapped in the sticky oil. In more recent history people took what they could from the oil and laid over a concrete shell on the Los Angeles basin. The hidden layers of this history intrigued me. I illustrated this as though I was an archaeologist exposing secrets of the past that lay below the surface in the City of Angels.