[ Document LA began as a purely digital imaging project, emphasizing the visual rather than the textual. While sifting through the wealth of photographic material on the city of Los Angeles, certain themes became apparent. Rather than striving to codify and organize all these images, Document LA sought to represent subjectively a wide variety of visual information. Simply put: to document Los Angeles. ] [ Initially 100 images were chosen in photo-cd format and their linear presentation, at first, followed a somewhat chronological line from an early panorama of downtown Los Angeles up to the modern-day skycraping buildings of Bunker Hill. However, the project soon developed a rather critical look at these documents. Chronology soon gave way to more thematic threads, resulting in an ever-returning circle, back to the nexus of the City of Angels. ] [ Using City Hall as a point of departure, the images radiated outward like ripples, returning ever and again, only to set out in other unanticipated directions. Pools and pockets were only momentary side tracks, as the continuum resumed again its spiraling, and spoke not in words but in a series of pictures of a history that continues to overwhelm, consume and inspire. Documenting Los Angeles thus became a look toward the city of the new millennium and deciphering its visible trail of hieroglyphic images. ]