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SH: It’s interesting how a personal experience—that of your car breaking down—led you to make something visible in the social/political spectrum of the city. You’ve also taken a look at your own personal history. In the next project, “Everything,” you returned to some of your old haunts.
AH: I was trying to get inside these vacant buildings near the LA River, where homeless people had broken in. But instead, I decided to get down to the river itself. As a kid, I used to play in the drainage ditches and get up to mischief. I hadn’t been there since, but I could see familiar things. I could actually explore the whole LA River system, not just from downtown LA to Long Beach, but going the other direction, out toward the Valley. I walked that whole stretch a number of times—at least twenty miles back and forth, taking photographs. Most people in LA never see its river. Going over a bridge, they look down and see nothing but concrete with a bit of water in the middle. The idea is that you have to find it—and you have to walk to discover what’s there.
