Go on Safari in Century City
How Wildlife Statues Came to Dot a Concrete Jungle in Los Angeles
When I was studying painting at UCLA in the late 1960s, I had to take at least one sculpture class to earn my bachelor of fine arts. Not knowing much about sculpture, I decided to make a “rocking horse,” a figure that had movement and utility and that I could sit on without my feet touching the ground. It could be like a piece of furniture.
L.A. at that time was full of construction sites strewn with leftover 2-by-4s and other scrap wood with no other destiny than to become firewood. …
