Trash sculptures

Long Beach, California is one of the MOST polluted cities in America. Long Beach is the final dumping ground for LA River. huge ports, ballooning transportation, refineries and factories causing toxic pollution both seen and unseen. Long Beach is the ugly stepchild of Los Angeles, complicated and neglected. For over 10 years I have been documenting this problem using experimental Art practices.

Creating trash sculptures in the LA waterway, marking them with paint. Over time I document them disappearing by the city public works department - cleaning off the spray paint from the cement, simply pushes the trash aside and leaveing the trash to be washed back into the river and finally the ocean.

A collaboration with Sound Artists, Brandon Auger implants devices into the trash sculptures to  promote the amplification of sonic idiosyncrasies in both this  synthetic environment.

This is a powerful and important artistic and environmental practice—blending activism, documentation, and public art to highlight the persistent ecological neglect of Long Beach. I am confronting the invisibility of environmental harm in a striking way, using ephemeral materials and interventions that both resist and expose systemic failure.