Manifestly Donkeytown
Book Design3.75 x 7.25 inches, 150 pages, softcover
Before entertainment madness, frou-frou trees, and traffic hell, Los Angeles was an oil town. Fact is, it still is one, and the evidence is in plain sight—if we know what to look for. Derricks, pumpjacks (nodding donkeys), oil seeps, methane meters are all blended into the cityscape and our lives.
Manifestly Donkeytown offers a small survey of life around oil in Los Angeles. Its design references those ever-present drilling rigs, and that post-rain phenomenon of oil, floating back up to the surface of roads to reveal itself in an array of iridescent colors, a rancid beauty.
