White Rainbow

Today, I'm going to the opening (ending) of old Bates motel, the landmark building covered with white lime by artist #VincentLamouroux. This could be one of the most interesting human gathering happening in the city in a long time. After a riveting conversation with the artist on the sidewalk, we agreed on how profound the impact of a building size white canvas has on the Los Angeles crowd. The artist gave us a physical representation of the Hollywood dream. In reverse. He removed most of the figuration: billboard, colors and shapes to replace it by a white space. Suddenly, the dream is ours again, we get back room to breath instead of being constantly suggested what Hollywood should be, how colorful the rainbow of our dreams should be. It takes a (French) artist to drag us out of our Sunday brunchs, BBQ and farmers market errands, and make us "walk the streets" to see old LA bright and white like a sunny snow day after snowing, and before it ends. A little window of time before real estate designs a new representation of the dream, probably phenomenally boring town house lofts for new comers, arriving with their new dreams. But today, 3000 people can physically say "hi" to each other, enhanced in their own colors, in front a white background. We are the film today. Spinning the rainbow color wheel to white. Thank you Vincent! #ProjectionLA #VincentLamouroux