"What is L.A. going to do with suburbia?"

Graham
Hill

Alternately described as serial entrepreneur, do-gooder, and designer, Graham Hill certainly enjoys variety. His past businesses include forays into fashion, web-development, viral email, and plantbasedair filters. Additionally, he owns a product business that sells the New York souvenir of a ceramic Greek cup, which he designed a few years ago, in 150 stores including the Museum of Modern Art. Hill has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in Ottawaand did advanced studies in Industrial Design at ECIAD, Vancouver. He has lived all over the world and his guiltiest sin is air travel (offset of course).

Augustine
Kofie

You can see the influence of Graffiti, 70′s design, architectural drafting, and more mainstream techniques in Augustine Kofie’s artwork. His is an example of amalgamation — of someone inspired by different visual forms who has carved out a distinct reputation at both the street level (he lives in Los Angeles) and the institutional one. His work has been exhibited in galleries around the country, and increasingly in Europe. Kofie likes to scrounge through estate sales for random objects he can use. That makes him both an archivist and (to use a label he’s been tagged with) a “Futurist.”

We are the many varied people that inhabit the many varied landscapes of this world. We are many. Together we create a system. We function as one. We live as many. To see ourselves as we are we must look closely, and then from afar.

We function as one. We live as many.

The human landscape is made of human errors and while we attempt to improve ourselves we must see where our faults lie. We do not deserve a piece of land to call our own. Happiness is not in the deed of a home. Happiness is to each their own. Together we live separately and create a web of human survival. Physically and spiritually. Urban, suburban, rural… They work together. Separately.

Each as important as we all are. Individually they become one unit breathing the same air, looking at the same sky. As important as density is to saving resources so is the space to grow the food we eat. Suburbia alone should not be about affordability but accessibility. Do we have access to what we need?