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Five photographic digital photo collages from two new and one on-going series. URBAN FABRIC juxtaposes and superimposes vintage fabric from thrift stores with vernacular Los Angeles architecture. The street scenes are contextualized in fabric overlays. While driving, I read the street as large swaths of motion punctuated by snapshots at curbside. In the collages, fabric scans are decontextualized from their original state of yardage and garment and are inserted into city-scapes, my urban context, where the text blurs, focuses, blurs…between go, stop, go. At the wheel, I view endless moving compositions whose components comprise facades, surfaces, traffic, color stories and signage. Through the frame of windshield, “stills” merge into the computer monitor where the street shots and fabric scans glide into place. Urban Fabric creates personal landmarks from the indeterminate sprawl of Los Angeles—a city of velocity. The work is less about mapping, and more about recollections and reveries of imposing and superimposing glimpses. The work tangentially grew out of a series of work depicting LA’s fashion district window displays. Seated on the sidewalk I held the canvas in one hand and charcoal in the other amidst the exhaust, grit, detritus, beating sun and humanity. The street pervades most of my art practice in the last decades. UNTITILED: Rodeo Drive & Window Dressing This developing work explores the language of the dressed, depersonalized and inanimate body in community and commerce. It weaves the haptic with the spectatorial through street photography and digital photo collage. The empty garment, embodiment and the economics and theater of fashion in the presence of absence is investigated.