Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.

Porcíuncula looks at the portion of the Los Angeles River passing through downtown Los Angeles. This section was chosen due to the fact that the first settlement of Los Angeles was on top of a 3000 year old Tongva Indian settlement known as Yagna.

Aaron was interested in looking at the site as an epicenter of culture. There were two key concepts the piece was built on. The first was current use of the site. He then looked at those dwelling in the river, Hollywood’s use of it as an imaginary location, the cities use for training the fire department and bus drivers, graffiti culture and recreation to name a few.

The second concept was looking at the performance of archaeology and geology as they reflect each other in the layers of the river itself. Aaron worked with a correlation between the geological experience of exploring the history of a river by digging through layers of sediment to read the evolution of a site and the archaeological method of digging through a contextual space to learn of a culture by the art and craft left behind over the ages. By intertwining the geological and archaeological he developed an aesthetic of peeling layers away to describe history and create imagery drawn from the culture surrounding the river.

The video plays with multiplicty within voices based on over a year of research. These voices tell the story of the river and the lives of those involved with it. The voices are in 5.1 surround allowing them to move through space an at times intersect. The video is layered in multiple manners including the use of graffiti as a masking element.

The photographs were all taken with medium format polaroid film and printed traditional fiber paper. They serve as a document of textures and spaces which reveal the distinctly urban beauty and mystery of the river.

The scupltural element is a references to the river’s structure. Filled will LA River water and including a subwoofer underneath project vibration from the audio of the video through the scuplture. As the water stagnates a film of pollutant is coalesced. The vibrations cause the film to reconfigure without being turbulent enough to destabilize.

Porcíuncula was done as Aaron’s thesis project at Art Center College of Design in 2004.