LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
Installation view, studio) (far left) Untitled LA River no.1 from LA-LIKE: Day For Night (Sunlight as Spotlight), 2015, 48 x 72 inches, Digital C-print; 2016, LA-LIKE: Fools Gold Dust (Mimic) Paintings (for Untitled L.A. River no.1), 48 x 72 inches, Black gesso and pulverized pyrite crystallized in epoxy on canvas; (pedestal) LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland), Various sizes, Unique bronze casts; (floor) 2014, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond (Finch & Hollydale), 13 x 60 x 12 inches, Unique bronze castALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2017
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
Installation View, The New LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds & LA-LIKE: Fools Gold Dust (Mimic) Paintings, Mayeur Projects, LA Vegas, NM Summer 2016
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsStudio view
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsStudio view
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2015
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2015
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, Austere, curated by Shyan Rahimi and Cédric Aurelle, Los Angeles, CA, July 2015
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, Austere, curated by Shyan Rahimi and Cédric Aurelle, Los Angeles, CA, July 2015
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris AdlerALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2017
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris AdlerALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2017
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, September 2015
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, September 2015
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
Photo: Chris AdlerALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2017
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Finch & Hollydale, 2014, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 64 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsPre-bronzing
Atwater & Silverlake, 16 x 67 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Atwater & Silverlake, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 67 x 10 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsPre-bronzing
Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd, 16.5 x 65 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16.5 x 65 x 8 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
DetailLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Atwater & Silverlake, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 67 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
DetailLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Atwater & Silverlake, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 67 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
DetailLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16.5 x 65 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
DetailLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16.5 x 65 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
DetailLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Atwater & Silverlake, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 67 inches
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16.5 x 65 inches
Installation view "Up to & Including the Horizon," Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA, June 2015
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
DetailLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Atwater & Silverlake, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 67 inches
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16.5 x 65 inches
Installation view "Up to & Including the Horizon," Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA, June 2015
Photo: Chris AdlerALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2017
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsPre-bronzing
Sunset & Orange, 14 x 70 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Sunset & Orange, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 15 x 70 x 13 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, September 2015
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, September 2015
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, September 2015
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsInstallation view, LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, September 2015
Photo: Chris Adler
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, LA River at Glendale, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 10 x 60 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsPre-bronzing
Venice & Grand View, 16 x 66 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsLA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Frond, Venice & Grand View, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 66 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsFigueroa & W Ave 44, 14 x 72 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsPrinceton & Gardena, 13 x 64 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsCasitas & Figueroa, 13 x 70 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsDracena & Greenwood, 19 x 78 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsN Ave 63 & Meridian, 14 x 58 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsBeverly Blvd & St Andrews Pl, 14 x 63 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm FrondsDracena & Greenwood, 15 x 65 inches
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LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds, Unique bronze cast, Dimensions variable
Furthering my conceptual mapping of Los Angeles, this time through its discarded palm fronds, this project consists of 150 natural bronze palm frond sculptures, all of which are unique and named according to where they were found in LA.
“A critical element to the new sculptural work that I’m doing is that these are unique pieces specifically made with a lost wax process—which means that the original raw organic object is actually destroyed in the process and replaced with, in this case, bronze. There is a way in which the actual replacement of the object being documented relates to the intentions of documentary photography, but I’m not sure what the proper term is—it isn’t index, it is more a stand-in somehow, a facsimile or relief of the “real,” a more physicalized way of recording something that is or that “happened.” The traditional intention of photography to “represent the real” gets taken to a more expanded realm when the actual object being documented is actually used and replaced in that process of documentation, if that makes sense. This work is inspired by a photographic impulse, a documentary impulse even, but it no longer needs to exist within a photographic realm. In a term I’ve created, the Imagiatic (as opposed to the Photographic), the medium doesn’t really matter—the imaginary, the image, all the intangible ideas that traditionally lived within photography as a representational medium, no longer need to be bound by them. Thus the bronzed palm fronds—these ephemeral objects that are disappearing almost overnight, cast in a material that lasts forever—still solidly sits within my conceptual realm of misremembered mapping of the imaginary of Los Angeles, is informed by a documentary impulse, has a bizarre relation to the Real, but is no longer bound by the photographic.”
Palm Frond Breakdown:
2 Hollydale & Finch
1 Kenmore & 4th
1 Kenmore & 8th
4 Alexandria & 4th
4 Virgil & 5th
9 Casitas & Figueroa
3 Kenmore & 5th
7 Fairfax & oakwood
5 Sunset & Gower
2 Coronado Terr & Sunset
1 Clayton & Rosalia
2 Atwater & Silverlake
2 Dracena & Greenwood
6 Princeton & Gardena
1 Sunset & Harvard
1 Homeland & Seward
2 N San Fernando & Verdugo
4 Commonwealth & Fountain
9 Glendale & Ferncroft
3 Gardena & Topock
2 Vassar & Topock
3 Colombus & Lomita
3 Figueroa & W Ave 44
8 Marmion Way (Southwest Museum Station)
2 Armadale & York
2 Nolden & Hub
5 N Ave 63 & Meridian
2 N Ave 64 & Malcolm
10 Laverna & Eagle Rock
8 Grand View Dr (Elysian Park)
6 Park & Lemoyne (Echo Park)
5 Santa Monica & Commonwealth
4 Sunset & Orange
2 DeLongpre & Cherokee
2 Adams & Hope
7 Ambrose & Hillhurst
3 Rampart & Marathon
4 Ettrick & Maxwell
4 Mulholland Dr & Desmond Estates Rd
1 Washington Blvd & Sawtelle
Projects
- LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
- LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics
- LA-LIKE: Unlit Lightboxes
- LA-LIKE: Fools Gold Dust (Mimic) Paintings
- LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)
- The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, in conjunction with LAND
- Shangri-LA'd & Expanded Shangri-LA'd
- LA-LIKE: Mirage
- LA-LIKE: Composition I-10, Desert Center
- The Manifest Destiny Billboard Perfume
- LA Disappearing Frond-Like
- LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific
- LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific, Dessert Concepts & Recipes
- For An Evening with Eve Babitz, at the Chateau Marmont
- LA-LIKE: LAXART Billboard
- The Pools I Shot
- LA-LIKE
- LA-LIKE (LOST)
- Tear Sheet Posters
- The Additive Dust Series
- The Disbanding of Michelle duBois
- Mae Wested
- The Disappearing of Michelle duBois
- The Vanishing of Michelle duBois
- Silhouetted
- The Uniqued Series
- All Her Shadows
- Blackened Last Four Days & Nights in Tokyo
- The Other Disappeared Nurse
- Almost the Same
- The Unveiling of Michelle duBois
- The Unraveling of Michelle duBois
- Obfuscated
- The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois
- Polaroided
- Posed Postcards
- LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific, Published by Hesse Presse, Los Angeles, CA - Spring 2016 (Sold Out)
- Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles (May 2015) Published by Metropolis Books
- Forthcoming: The Re-duBois Book
- Returning to Berlin / Publication curated by Kim Schoen - Motto, Berlin (August 2013)
- Why Art Photography? by Lucy Soutter (2013) Published by Routelage
- Volume 4: The Disappearance of Michelle duBois, aka *Mitchi* (Fall 2012) Published by Aperture Ideas
- Volume 3: The Unveiling of Michelle duBois, aka *Cricket* (Spring 2012) Published by Aperture Ideas
- Volume 2: The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, aka *Alice Johnson* (Fall 2011) Published by Aperture Ideas
- Volume 1: The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois, aka *Kathy* (Spring 2011) Published by Aperture Ideas
- Out the Window (LAX) with essays by Norman Klein, Pico Iyer, & Julian Meyers (2007)
- NTNTNT (2004)
- L.A. Now: Volume One, Published by Art Center College of Design, August 2002
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