Photographic Lightbox Series
Robbert Flick, artist
Along WILSHIRE, looking North (from Grand to Mariposa)
Artist Robbert Flick presents a series of photographs titled, along WILSHIRE, looking North (from Grand to Mariposa). For the series, Flick painstakingly recorded each northern building facade on Wilshire from downtown to just beyond Western during one day: July 10, 1997. These images generally trace the route of the Metro Red (A) Line on Wilshire and become a frozen record of the neighborhood under which the trains run. Flick then combines these color images in grids, one image visually tied to the next, as our eyes move along the route. The result is a remarkable documentation of a neighborhood and a seemingly endless amount of information to contemplate.
“This work is part of a long term project that deals with the extended visual documentation of Los Angeles where I trace routes through the Southern California cityscape in an effort to make visible what the singular frame does not.”