Echo Park, California, a site that also blogs Echo Park has a pair of posts that touch upon the return of a pair of owls, the mystery of the Bird Man of Elysian Park and a plea on behalf of the Right Site Coalition and Site 9A, which I have written about on Chicken Corner.

In the meantime, Echo Park was represented at the Tar Fest this weekend by at least one artist -- Karen Frimkess Wolff. Karen grew up in a family of artists and lived in Venice with her husband, an architect for many years before they decided to head east: Echo Park ho! Karen is known for installation work as well as sound sculpture. The striking thing is that Karen's visual art gives me a strong feeling of seeing sound, of experiencing sound as a spatial dynamic that can be read visually because sound does not exist in a vacuum -- it interacts with objects. For the last two decades, Karen has taught art at the Braille Institute for the Blind.

The Tar Fest was held near the Tar Pits, a big deal on a weekend of big deals: other major festivals included the Grand Avenue festival downtown and the Eagle Rock music fest. The planners must all be using the same astrologer. I wonder if the Astrologers' Assoc. has a code of ethics addressing conflict of interest.

(Disclosure: I own a Karen Frimkess Wolff drawing, a prized possession, which I purchased at the Echo Park Historical Society art auction in August.)
(More disclosure: The Echo Park Historical Society, of which I am a board member, is involved -- as a sponsor -- in the Right Site Coalition's lawsuit against the LAUSD.)

Photo: 9A house, now vacant
By Cindy Bennett