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| Agricultural growth in bed of El Camino |
The following photographs are of vegetation or agriculture being grown, in the city of Los Angeles, for the Farm Lab project by trustee and owner Lauren Bon of the Annenberg Foundation. Her message is to bring attention of organic life struggling to live with in the confines of of an area in Los Angeles that is encompassed by city buildings, houses, open land and homeless patrons.
Another project of Lauren Bons is "Not a Cornfield." This project was initiated in 2005. The project's main focus was to bring to light the sounds of a field. The 32 acre piece of land was a corn field in reality but the sounds of the land was the main purpose and direction of her project. Wind rustling past leaves of the field, bugs chirping, a train passing by sounding off its horn, and surrounding sounds of the local community were recorded. Her group of members who helped in this project set-up two large speakers in the vast field three thousand feet apart to grasp a surround sound experience. Her projects bring attention to the smaller things in life that do not get much attention by the average person walking or driving by. I viewed an interview of her by KCET regarding the Farmlab project and I was inspired by her attention to the details of a street in Los Angeles that she focused on. She turned this area into a cornfield and the volunteers assisted in raising corn crops that varied in multiple colors from pale white to blue-green, to purple-red, and chocolate.
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