The Center for Land Use Interpretation

Ground-Up: Photographs of the Ground in the Margins of Los Angeles

Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area

Soil can be excavated and mounded, built upon and abandoned, mined and amended. It is a living fabric, an organic skin wrapping the earth’s stone and molten core. Once disturbed it is never the same. As we look at the utilization of soil for agriculture, mining, recreation, and the control of erosion necessary for the construction of Los Angeles’ ever expanding borders, we find that it is at these margins that the ground can be seen most clearly, before paving erases the layers of meaning that soil contains.

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