Los Angeles-based arts advocate, urban explorer and architecture fiend.
Solo exhibition coming up
ACE121 Gallery,
121 N. Kenwood St. Glendale, CA 91206
Opening reception:
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Exhibition dates: October 25 – November 22
Photo Collage
Exploring
Visual Earworms
Little House Big Cactus (LHBC)
Through the Grapevine
Monterey Workers’ Shacks
A few tiny shacks survive on the Monterey waterfront. They are what remain of hundreds of wood shanties that housed cannery workers in the early 20th century. They came from afar; many were Japanese or Filipino. The cabins have become a tourist curiosity. I revisit them often digitally to conjure the ghosts of those overburdened immigrant workers.
Single Palm
Blog: ADAMS HILL HISTORY WALKS
WALKING ADAMS HILL, CALIFORNIA’S COOLEST NEIGHBORHOOD
March 13, 2025
WALK 1: THE FIVE SISTERS WALK
1 mile loop; Rating: 3. Two short steep climbs, the rest are gentle hills or flats.
Two short steep climbs, the rest are gentle hills or flats.
Start in the Adams Square Mini Park at 1020 E. Palmer Ave). Note KAFN and Palmer Market across Palmer for refreshments before or after your walk. This cute little park has served as a neighborhood town center since 2007. The 1936 Streamline Moderne gas station was a fixture in the neighborhood from 1936 to 1971. It then remained vacant for through the early 2000s. The gas station exemplifies the Streamline Moderne style of many gas stations in the 1930s. With its enameled steel panels and streamlined canopy fins, the design conveys machine age modernity that accompanied the “Golden Age” of motoring for recreation and discovery. The gas station was threatened with demolition in 2003-2005 and the Glendale Historical Society, Adams Hill Neighborhood Association and City of Glendale worked together to ensure its preservation and eventual inclusion in our community mini-park. Since 2007 it has served as a meeting place and art space for the Adams Hill community. Read the chronology here.