L.A. Downtown Racine (L.A. Downtown Roots)

36’x46’x5’

Pursuing its concept of root city (cf. DATY, Villes Racines 2012-19), Daty

wants to show with this work that in order to develop, the city (in the

architectural sense, but also in the sense of the ancient Greek 'Polis': a

human structure , a social community) needs 'roots': cultural

references, traditions, customs, brought by the thousands of beings who

made it up and who will develop all the more as the city projects itself

towards the sky such as an unlimited tower of Babel.

Downtown Los Angeles is the perfect expression, in this work, of this

image. It stands proudly on the horizon, an absolute landmark. But this

'heart' would be nothing without the rings of communication that

serve and surround it.

Like the electrons around the neutron of the atom, the city is here also

like a living cell in constant movement: the skyscrapers are its heart, the

highways are its rings, the living beings are its vibrant and indispensable

energy.