“Snapshots” is a series for which ARTnews loans artists a Lomo’Instant Automat Glass camera and asks for glimpses into their lives, with captions to match.
In this installment, the artist Oscar Tuazon documented different views of his studio in Los Angeles, which is made up of three “zomes,” or hollowed wooden structures consisting of 11 polyhedral units taken from the 2016 Art Basel presentation of his architectural installation Zome Alloy. Tuazon refers to these zome installations as “water schools,” since the structures become places for discussion and education about their locations and surrounding environs. Below, a tour of Tuazon’s Los Angeles Water School (LAWS, for short) through the artist’s own eyes.
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Los Angeles Water School
LAWS
Sits on an empty lot
In Downtown L.A.
adjacent to the Los Angeles river.
Open
to the public
occasionally
for special events
when the sun
goes down
LAWS is also a workspace
built around a rainwater catchment tank
a place to work with water
inside a Zome structure
an architecture
in motion
like water
never stops moving.