Telotypes

Los Angeles
2019-2022

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Los Angeles ground to a halt.  

I watched the inflection the pandemic forced upon us from a large community house on Hi Point Street in Mid-City. As I was new to LA, this house was a cocoon where I could process the raw visual encounters I made walking and biking the city.

Traversing Los Angeles by foot afforded me viewpoints that driving speeds would have made disappear in a blur. 

While walking, I forged the word "telotype" with the Greek stems τέλος (end, boundary, border, extremity) and τύπος (mark, figure, outline), consciously nodding to The Prototype Works, a series Lewis Baltz completed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Each telotype is a collection of complex, often conflicting emotions processing what remains once LA's insatiable metabolism has crushed light, space, matter and form.

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This series culminated in a self-published monograph in 2023:
︎︎︎ https://yogan-muller.com/Telotypes-book