ZZYZX (First edition, signed) Takashi Homma Ladd embraces the muteness of

Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural

between the exacting detail of photography and all the nuances of sketches and drawings

capturing their fall into the provisional

or the attentive gaze of a mother carrying her child

In his photographs

ZZYZX (First edition, signed) Takashi Homma Ladd embraces the muteness ofThe early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid rowbut the place is not so easily distilled or visualised, either as a clichd paradise or as its demise. Theres a strange kind of harmony when its all seen togetherthe sublime, the psychedelic, the self destructive. Like all places, its unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes.