This is a photo of 4 women from the party crew, ‘Together We Stand’ (TWS) on the
This is a photo of 4 women from the party crew, ‘Together We Stand’ (TWS) on the 6th street bridge in 1993. The bridge was demolished on Feb 5th, 2016. The city of Los Angeles faces the erasure of its rich histories. Part of my motivation in creating the @veteranas_and_rucas and Map_Pointz digital archives was seeing the way my neighborhood was changing. These projects are about preserving a history. Mario Ayala’s paintings (as seen in the previous post) discuss and preserve this same history in another form. I also want to encourage today’s youth to document (in writing, photography etc.) and pay close attention to what they experience in their daily lives. —Guadalupe Rosales (of @veteranas_and_rucas And @map_pointz) #LACMAInstaResidency http://ift.tt/2vce3r2 -- source link