Anthology of Leimert combines footage from three separate days that honors Leimert Park Plaza as an integral third place. Blending footage from an everyday walk in Leimert Park Plaza, a drum circle, and the kickoff event of Annual Day of the Ancestors, the artworks displays the experience of being in Leimert Park.
Puffing with Patties to Leimert Park is an animation featuring a mini, magical Afro-Cuban breakfast train as it travels through Downtown Los Angles to Leimert Park.
Stained Glass Vignettes is an animated scroll of an imaginary “stained glass window” that merges Persian tile artifacts with visual elements sourced from surrounding neighborhoods along the K line.
Grandmas on the Go! presents itself as an interactive karaoke experience that engages with Leimert Park’s multicultural and stories history. The artwork emerges from the artist’s ongoing project that seeks to satirize and re-imagine public sites of leisure for grandmothers.
Kulture Keepers is a paper-based animation and love letter to Los Angeles. The artwork emphases the diverse cultural contributions of Los Angeles communities and their manual labor through the use of labor-intensive traditional techniques that pay homage to the working hand and historical traditions of craft.
Inspired by Leimert Park’s neighborhood gardens and ever-present composition of sounds, Bloom Song Sing emulates poly rhythmic and multi-timbral qualities of music with blooming flowers as a means to celebrate the neighborhoods’ unique “visual music”.
Kingdom Day is an experimental Super 8mm film that captures the spirit and individuals of South Central’s Black community during the annual Martin Luther King Day Parade.
Bloom draws inspiration from the lush gardens cared for by the artists neighbors in Leimert Park, while also celebrating the growth of a new generation of youth in the community.
The True Story of Edges: Leimert Park presents hair as a mutable space of memory and storytelling. The artwork features the artist with a video collage within her afro that mixes contemporary images with home videos, generating multiple and simultaneous narratives of the people who have lived within the surrounding communities.
Featuring historical images from the Los Angeles Public Library’s Shades of L.A. archive, Bojagi (Shades of LA) weaves together photos of the diverse communities that have called Leimert Park home since the 1920’s.
Veterans, their families, and the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center (West LA VA) community are honored in Colors of Courage, temporary art banners for the Metro D Line station construction site at the West LA VA.
Love, Leimert is a digital media love letter to Leimert Park, now presenting at the K Line Leimert Park Station. Connecting Metro riders to the past and present, Love, Leimert honors the people who call Leimert Park home and those dedicated to preserving its legacy.
