Heritage Square is a small museum of Victorian houses, except none of them are where they're supposed to be. They were pulled from neighborhoods across Los Angeles and reassembled into a curated village at the edge of the Arroyo, a place that looks like a historic block and isn't one.

I keep coming back to the strangeness of that gesture. A house gets preserved as an artifact, porch, ornament, foundation and all, but cut off from the community and the history that actually made it matter. It's saved. It's also gone.

Each structure still carries a trace of its displacement, evidence of what the city decided was worth protecting and what it didn't. I've been working at the site with photography, drawing, and writing, trying to sit inside that gap: what a house keeps when it's lifted out of context, and what quietly disappears the moment it's set down somewhere new.

Heritage Square is Los Angeles doing what it always does, tearing down, rebuilding, moving on, except here you can watch it happen to a single house instead of an entire neighborhood. It's part of a bigger question I keep asking about this city: what gets remembered, and what gets left for someone else to notice.

Pictured below : Mock up of gallery view for proposal