SKIDROW RAZORWIRE AND CHAINLINK
ED CHRISTIANSEN'S ABSTRACTIONS.
(PLEASE SCROLL THROUGH THE IMAGES BELOW).
Ed often works on the sidewalk to gain more space for his unstretched canvases.
Razorwire, which has replaced barbwire due to its enhanced vicious design,
is omnipresent in Skid Row. Much of our visual experience is refracted
through serpentine coils and knife-edged barbs or by the rectangular
patterns of creosote drenched power poles reminiscent of the
crosses of Golgotha.
Photo, directly below, Crocker and 5th, outside Lamp Village Residence.
all photos : rory white / lamp art project.
Above, Ed with "Skid Row Lattice", acrylic on unstretched canvas.
Below, glass citadels of the L.A. financial district, aflame with the
late September sun, viewed through chain link barriers of the east inner city.
Below : detail of Ed's painting hanging from steel accordion gate.
Ed left Los Angeles the other day, this early October 2003. He explains he has moved to Colorado. Below : his paints upon the sidewalk in front of the Lamp Art Project, East 7th and Gladys.
We will miss Ed Christiansen.
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