The vast and looping knots of L.A.’s elaborate freeway system have long inspired an unlikely stew made from equal parts road rage, suffocating air pollution, and an unexpected aesthetic appreciation for their stacked coils and crisp lines. A drivable geometry textbook, the freeways are perhaps the city’s real monuments, Stonehenge-like megastructures that novelist J.G. Ballard would call “motion sculptures in space,” abstract works of automotive art too easy to miss for all the oil stains and honking.
Nathan Masters takes an aerial view of L.A.’s freeways in his newest post for Southland.
https://gizmodo.com/l-a-s-freeway-interchanges-are-beautiful-if-youre-no-1556221283
