Participating in the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center’s vision to “joyfully and mindfully use arts and culture to engage with our diverse community,” we developed a temporary art installation—an exploration of space, time and our experience of the natural world. Using straw wattles (tube-shaped erosion control devices filled with straw) as a medium, we examined how we respond to nature’s interruption of the manufactured environment. 

Artist: Calvin Abe

Winner of the Urban Beautification Award 2000, The Los Angeles Business Council Merit Award 1999, and American Society of Landscape Architects Southern California.