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A square lampshade on a bulbous lamp body. Shade is made from walnut and mulberry bark paper, with thatched grass woven between the wood and the paper. The woven grass is California Broomsage (Lepidospartum squamatum) that I gathered at a riparian zone up in northern Altadena, by the Arroyo Seco, land originally inhabited and farmed by the Tongva (specifically the Hahamongna group). The broomsage forms large tumbleweeds when it dries out and they pile up by the side of the road. My idea was to clear some fire-prone dry brush by using this plant material, I was exploring if there is a way to reciprocally “use” any of the plants from this area. In my mind there’s really not, as it’s been such an overused and trodden on area, also the site of many different groups of people with various claims to the land - from the Tongva originally, to the white hermit-men in the late 1800s who set up hotel-like trail camps, to the CA dept of reclamation in the mid-1900s who built the check dams, to then the various groups that put work into the Hahamongna Watershed Park master plan in the late 90s. Not to mention all of the people who have enjoyed the peace of nature in this spot. There’s just a lot of energy floating around, true of any spot in los angeles.
The clay lamp base is a red stoneware clay fired to cone 10 in a gas reduction kiln, with two separate black glazes on it, the colorants are cobalt carbonate, iron oxide, and chrome oxide.
16”Hx8”Wx8”L
$600
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