State Park Brochure Features Anabolic, Metabolic, Not A Cornfield

The California State Parks Department has issued a new brochure for the Los Angeles State Historic Park. (Visit here to download.)

LASHP is located across the street from Metabolic Studio (Farmlab+Chora+AMI), and is the site where the Not A Cornfield project occurred and where the Anabolic Monument resides.

The cover of the fold-out brochure features an aerial photo by Joshua White, taken for and courtesy the Metabolic Studio.

Inside the brochure, a map of the park and immediate area notes the Anabolic Monument as well as the "Farmlab / Metabolic Studio" headquarters.

And brochure text under the heading "Sanctuary in the City" reads:

"California State Parks acquired the park land in 2001. Before the development of the Interim Public Use Park plan, L.A. artist Lauren Bon planted 32 acres of corn on the vacant parkland, creating what came to be known as the "Not A Cornfield" project. The remnants of the project, now called the Anabolic Monument, functions as a vibrant and dynamic public* space."

To download the LASHP brochure, visit here and follow the instructions.


Screen grab is from .pdf found on the www.parks.ca.gov site


*=Correction: In the original post, the word "public" was misspelled. That was this blog's error; the State Parks staff had the spelling accurate. We regret the mistake.

Anabolic Monument

Lauren Bon's sculpture Anabolic Monument is a thirty-meter-radius circle of decaying corn bales. The twenty-two bales were made from the remainder of corn plants grown on site and harvested during Ms Bon's artwork Not A Cornfield.

Located at the north side of the Los Angeles State Historic Park, this compost monument holds mystery and hosts numerous butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees in their odyssey toward nectar. It is tended by the Metabolic Studio in association with California State Parks.

Related Links:

About the Anabolic Monument

Public Harvest (1/31/09)

Goats (2/28-3/9/09)

More Goat photos

Wildflowers (2/28/09)

Flora & Fauna of the Los Angeles State Historic Park, as observed by a naturalist (5/08)

Aerial View 2/2009

Harvest & Seed Giveaway (12/20/08)

Community Marigold Harvest (12/1/2007)

Photo taken just north of Anabolic Monument (2/2009)

Photos taken just outside Anabolic Monument (2/28/09)

Not A Cornfield (2005-2006)

Not A Cornfield -- Cornhenge (i.e. an earlier name for the the Anabolic Monument)reacting

Not A Cornfield -- Cornhenge created

Not A Cornfield -- Cornhenge created, aerial view

Los Angeles State Historic Park

Anabolic Monument Facebook Group -- to join, Facebook members please search for the "anabolic monument" group

More past links to be added to this page soon, as archiving continues...






Photos (from top): Farmlab photo by Joshua White 2009; iPhone photo copyright and courtesy Julie Pittman 2009; Not A Cornfield photo by Steve Rowell 2006.