Documenting Los Angeles’s Near-Invisible Workers [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/21/164:00 AM

A man pushes a lawn mower through an expanse of green. A woman scours a tall, tiled shower. A man cleans a large pool as another washes the windows of a modern looking house, framed by two palm trees.

These subjects are usually in the background of the luxurious California landscapes they help maintain, but the artist Ramiro Gomez uses his brush to document their existence, memorializing them in the midst of their work. By emphasizing the hidden labor that sweeps and polishes and scrubs, Gomez reframes the David Hockney paintings and glossy magazine advertisements he takes for inspiration, putting the lives of California’s near-invisible and individually disposable workers front and center.

[For more of this story, written by Katharine Schwab, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/ent...en-workforce/478989/]

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