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When I moved to L.A. over 20 yrs ago, my mental picture of L.A. consisted of a vague melange of freeways, palm trees, and beaches. Everybody knows the beach, David Hockney has the palm trees covered, and I became fascinated with the freeways.

The freeways, whatever you feel about them, are the heart and soul of L.A., the circulatory system. They tie together far-flung neighborhoods and bring you where you're going quicker; they also contribute to the poisonous orange haze that settles over the L.A. metro basin when the winds die; and lock you into a mind-numbing crawl on the 405 thru West L.A. during a rush hour that has expanded to five hours. The 710 brings Toyotas and cheap Chinese-made bras from the huge container ships idling in Long Beach and Terminal Island to the railyards in Vernon where the goods flow out into the rest of the country. The 105-E flyover ramp from the 405-S next to the 747s coming in for a landing at LAX offers you a panoramic view of the Westside, with ample time to sit and take in the scenery weekdays from 4 to 6 PM. The bullet-ridden 110-105 interchange in South LA, the 22-5-57 "Orange Crush" stack, and the 10-210-57-71 near Pomona give you a view of the intriciate design and the majestic sweeping curves of the modern freeway stack, the cathedral of the automotive era.

What If...... the Hudson River School of Art had decided to paint freeways instead of landscapes? Of course, the freeway was not invented until long after the Hudson River School faded away, but can you imagine if Frederic Church or Thomas Moran had decided to apply their grand, bombastic, glowing Luminist sensibilities to the subject...

Check back occassionally, and as time permits, I'll probably polish up this site, add freeway snapshots, some of my old and new art and "art", Amazon.com links to freeway media, and other assorted detritus. In the meantime, here's a few links to check out.....

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