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Dead Grass, Dead CementBy Luis Escobar As evolved and adept as our eyes may be, life passes in front of us like a movie. Remembering big events that happen throughout the day comes naturally, but remembering the details requires more focus and attention. The beauty of photography is that it captures these details that we may have missed or forgotten. Sometimes something so common can be shown through a different angle, and that angle shows a beauty we might not have noticed. My group decided to go to Little Tokyo to practice photography, and along the way to the train station, I stopped to take a picture of the surrounding area. In this photograph, the freeway magically disappears behind a hill: This shows that our eyesight can deceive us, that what we see might not be the complete picture. The lines of the road act as a frame within the photograph that emphasizes the detail above, of nature and civilization coming together.
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People may say that nature is being consumed by civilization as we intrude more and more upon nature. These freeways are an example of how the need for urban civilization—transportation, in this case—is overpowering nature. However, as seen in the photo, the vines growing on the pillar are embedding themselves into the cracks of the pillar, which symbolizes that nature can fill the cracks of our civilization when need be.
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