Good morning, it’s Thursday, September 10. Today will be horrifically hot, though slightly less so than yesterday, with highs in the low 100s in the Valley and upper 90s on the other side of the hill.
1. How artist Guadalupe Rosales built an analog archive of East L.A.
Photos courtesy of Guadalupe Rosales.
Guadalupe Rosales' debut book makes constant references to the sources of light that have illuminated her life. There is the microfiche machine at the East L.A. Library where she loved to spend afternoons looking through old newspaper clippings. There are the sunsets that cast an orange hue across the sky; the glow-in-the-dark star stickers affixed to her friends’ bedroom walls; the flicker emanating from a neighbor's TV playing a VHS in the middle of the night. (Rosales and her sister used to sneak out of their house to watch surreptitiously.)
But one source of light, now ubiquitous, is never mentioned: the cold, blue glare of a smartphone. It's a notable omission given that Rosales, whose work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale, rose to international acclaim through Instagram, building a digital archive of personal snapshots and found photos that reflects the touchstones of her Eastside girlhood.
