ZZYZX (First edition, signed) Takashi Homma Since 1995 Welling has lived

Since 1995 Welling has lived in Los Angeles

and sometimes they suck just as bad as the week does

capturing their fall into the provisional

In his photographs

ZZYZX (First edition, signed) Takashi Homma Since 1995 Welling has livedThe early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid rowbut the place is not so easily distilled or visualised, either as a clichd paradise or as its demise. Theres a strange kind of harmony when its all seen togetherthe sublime, the psychedelic, the self destructive. Like all places, its unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes.