There is nothing I relish more than an intense visual experience. Ozone seems to agree with me. His wheat pasted image of a mutant man, seemingly melting from a lack of an ozone layer, channels a late eighties/early nineties skateboard decal aesthetic that is nothing short of radicool. The mutated human’s flesh tone has been replaced by an intense dayglo yellow accented by his blood red insides and caped by a blue earth, whose continents have been over exposed to a bright orange. Unlike some people who may be more blatant about their political ideas, and intern, less effective, Ozone is aware of the fact that subtlety is key. Ozone may not be Los Angeles’s most prolific wheat paster; this being only the second time I have seen one of his pastes (the first under the 10 freeway on Santa Fe avenue, now painted over), but any one who uses bright colors is o.k. with me. Ozone………..you had me at dayglo.
Location: Just south of Jet Rag Vintage Store, between Waring and Willoughby just north of Melrose on La Brea Avenue, 90038
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