A creative documentation of the mural by Cris Dupont
and Christina Zankowski-Dupont with music by Brian Cooper
No doubt because contemporary architects and town planners have no more than anyone else been able to escape such psychotropic disorders, one can say that the most distinctive cities bear within them the capacity of being nowhere…. the dream décor of oblivion.
From The Vision Machine - A Topographic Amnesia by cultural critic Paul Virilio
Los Angeles is a place like no other. Spilling over a large area, the city seemingly never ends. Anything you want you can find there, both good and bad. L.A. is young, inexperienced, inventive and reckless and it can be a magical fantasy-fueled/filled place.
An amazing, large project built by many over time - my vision of Los Angeles careens through the precipice of failure and fantasy, possibility and dread, hope and failure, invention and destruction.
This digital mural installation is derived from three, 4 (W) X 6 (H) foot, colored pencil drawings. The original drawings were depictions of downtown Los Angeles from three different views. Each drawing has now been photographed and digitally blown up many times larger than their original size and slightly replicated to create an effect that is at once wondrous and overwhelming, confusing and stunning.
As an ambassador representing the ethos of the city, this artwork addresses the landscape of Los Angeles as a blueprint for conflicts we create in culture and ourselves.
This installation will be exhibited from Mid May through Mid October 2011 at LAX in the Terminal 1 (Southwest/US Air) baggage claim area. You don’t need a ticket or to go through security to see it.