CURB PERSPECTIVE

Successfully capturing a classic Los Angeles moment, being stationary in the chaos. Stopping on Fairfax at Rosewood, I shift your attention across the street toward a cluster of visual icons: “Dave’s Hot Chicken,” a gritty rooftop billboard blasting “Flight Club” with it’s colorful and intricate graffiti lettering, the Rip ’n Dip bus bench, along with the telltale sprawl of LA’s endless intersections.

My layered collage approach deconstructs the typical city view into a meditative pause. Palm shadows ripple across the cracked sidewalk like ghostly fingers, my own stance, feet visible, anchors this piece with a personal perspective. It’s voyeuristic yet grounded, privately universally familiar to any Angeleno who’s ever visited The Fairfax District or paused at a red light and let the city just be.

This isn’t about movement, it’s about presence. A quiet moment of visual sampling, sun, concrete, fast food, shadow, and self, all delivered through the fractured language of how I see, interpret, and present things.

— JAKE

“‘CURB PERSPECTIVE’ offers a beautifully fractured vision of urban stillness. Williams uses the ordinary as his stage, elevating overlooked intersections into visual poetry. The juxtaposition of clean skies, layered signage, and broken pavement creates a sense of suspended time, an LA moment that could belong to any decade.

The artist’s decision to include his own legs and shadow isn’t an intrusion, it’s a quiet signature, a whisper of authorship. With this work, Williams invites us not to look forward, but to look around. To stand still, take inventory, and notice the unnoticed.

It’s an ode to the modern pedestrian, a still frame in a city addicted to motion.”

— S.N.R.