11th Ave. and G St.

Photographs made between 1999 and 2015 of various incarnations of a spontaneous performative display that appeared early on as a kind of anonymous urban graveyard, announced with a sign that said “The Ranch” posted next to a broken piece of railing or fence that had been stuck in the ground . The northeast corner of 11th Avenue and G Street provided the stage for an ongoing cycle of creation through unanticipated community utilization of an unclaimed corner downtown San Diego.

Over the course of many years, with luck and chance playing a huge part in what I was ever able to capture in photographs, this collection of images accumulated without specific intention as an attempt to chronicle and decode the individual sculptural manifestations.

The site has been repeatedly bulldozed, graded, and at times even flooded over the years and currently in use as a parking lot.