Founding II (Pobladores)
2023
Digital
Dimensions Variable

Part of a series of works exploring the history of Los Angeles’ founding using the monuments and markers at Plaza Olvera as text. This series was framed by the question of “who do we remember when we forget?” and invited us to unpack how western culture tracks time, when it chooses to start tracking time, who it chooses to include/exclude in its myth-making, and the limitations of the language used to describe the people and events in those histories.

Founding II (Pobladores) focused on the language of the Spanish census on the Los Pobladores plaque at Plaza Overa.