The panel was a complement to Benny Chan’s exhibition Traffic!, which as you can see is of enormous aerial photographs of Los Angeles freeways. BC with the help of some engineers rigged up a special camera and went out during rush hour in helicopters (for the oblique shots) and a special plane they use for aerial views of Monday Night Football (for the overhead shots) (I am dying to know the money situation here). All of the images are here, and they are beautiful and I want full-size prints to hang up in my Neutra Fantasy House in the Imaginary Los Feliz Hills of My Dreams. Obviously I am a fan of the Los Angeles freeway system and all freeways, as practical and aesthetic objects, and maybe I’ve just been stuck in too much traffic, but for me here these photographs are about the elegant curves of the freeways and the way they cut through the city, and the different forms the city takes (I was particularly distracted by the tennis courts and pools and helicopter pads of this image), and the way different parts of the city interact with the freeways, and the natural versus built beauty of the city, and not about the cars on those freeways, which seem to me to be moving and to have at least a car-length in between them, so what is the big deal about that?