A Poor Man's Bouquet

There is something offensively beautiful about this simple magenta flower placed in the green soda bottle. The cigarette butts and bottle evoke a sense of a late night out which contrasts with the softness of the image as a whole and the vibrant colors. Suprisingly this photo was not staged, I happened across this little scene while looking at the semi-demolished wreckage of a building at on UC Berkeley's campus (see above post). This building which today looks more like a pile of rumble than a building is getting the Los Angeles version of a facelift, get rid of everything and replace it all with something newer and more fabulous, is undergoing surgery on the lower end of campus near Oxford and University streets (right across the street from Yali's).