Under Spring: Voices + Art + Los Angeles
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Jeremy Rosenberg
Jeremy Rosenberg is the Assistant Dean, Public Affairs and Special Events, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and a former team member of Metabolic Studio. His writings about art, urban planning, policy, ideas, and much more have appeared in dozens of anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and online publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The Art Newspaper, ARTNews, and Art+Auction. His weekly columns have included “The Secret City” for LATimes.com, “The Laws That Shaped LA” and “Arrival Stories” for KCET, and “City / Culture” for Next City. He was named a Next American City Vanguard in 2009.
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Under Spring - Jeremy Rosenberg
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UNDER SPRING
A marginalized space…Homelessness…Drugs…A week’s cleaning…Rescuing destitute places…The meaning of this place… Infrastructural crossroads…Where the village Yangna was…A concrete river…Planters and mobile gardens…Civic pageantry… From art project to public space…A source of inspiration
MANUEL CASTELLS: I was struck by a very small graffiti I found on the wall of a semi-abandoned building [nearby]—a warehouse that was not used. And the graffiti said, This is God’s most destitute place on earth.
That instant, I realized that any attempt to re-create life—urban life, social life, vegetation life—in this place would be a triumph against adversity and against destitution.
MARCO KUSUMAWIJAYA: It reminds me of lots of places where cities originated, and became derelict, abandoned like this, all over the world. I think it somehow sadly reminds us of the fact that we move away and away and away from the origins of these cities.
MATTHEW COOLIDGE: One of the great forces at Under Spring is the crossroads it represents. With the river, the railway, and the roadway all crisscrossing one another right at that point, it’s like some kind of axis mundi for the city, with all these layers of conveyance, with the historical river, with trains representing another era of development in the west, and then the roadways being built on top of all that. You’ve got all those things layered up on top of each other right there in kind of a fulcrum.
JOE LINTON: The area’s really close to the earliest account of the river. It’s about a half mile downstream from the confluence of the L.A. River and the Arroyo Seco. In 1769, the Portola Expedition came through here from Spain and they encountered sage and wild roses and tall sycamores and oaks, and lots of fresh free-flowing