In Los Angeles car is king. David Yoon doesn't like that. He is busy narrowing down street after street. 
An attempt to make the city more picturesque? Is it a fictionalization or a whish to go back to a human scale?

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Katie Paterson, All the Dead Stars

Katie Paterson, History of Darkness

Nelly Ben Hayoun, The Other Vulcano
Domesticated nature as the next level of entertainment?
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Anselm Kiefer, Bergkristall (1991)
Like a true alchemist, Kiefer turns lead into rock crystal. A poisonous metal that is, moreover, used for making bullets is paradoxically transformed into a healing mineral. Kiefer stamps his mark on the creation by chalking the title onto the surface of the composition. The title itself evokes echoes of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against the Jews (Germany 1938).
Although the picture seems a bit dull, seeing the work in real life is very impressive.

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Carte de la Saline et de ses environs