A FIELD GUIDE TO LOST CREATURES of the LA river
This is a project in development about the ecosystem of the Los Angeles River, named one of America's Most Endangered Rivers in 2022. It was aggressively channelized in the 1930s as a flood control measure, foregrounding human needs over our seasonal river's important role in the local ecosystem; a bittersweet compromise. As a result, numerous species of animals and plants were extirpated from the river. I am building an embroidered field guide to those lost creatures and indicating their threatened status with the intentional destructive unraveling of the stitching.
To learn more about each species, click the thumbnails below.
To learn more about each species, click the thumbnails below.
