{"id":105468,"date":"2025-02-23T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/los-angeles-is-burning-rick-castro-on-fleeing-his-home-once\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:16:15","slug":"los-angeles-is-burning-rick-castro-on-fleeing-his-home-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=105468","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles is burning: Rick Castro on fleeing his home once\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/3_2025-01-15-162415_pabl.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Castro remembers waking up the morning of the 8th to a black cloud hovering over Los Angeles. At 7:32am he texted his cousin with a photo of his front street: \u201cDude, this is apocalyptic scary. Where are you?\u201d His cousin, who has a home in Pi\u00f1on Hills, sent back a picture of the view: a pristine mountain top with a snow cap. \u201cOk, You sold me, I\u2019m coming,\u201d Rick replied. He hit the road by 8:30am, navigating a circuitous route around the fires. \u201cLA is beyond gigantic,\u201d he says. \u201cTo put it into perspective, the Palisades Fire is larger than Manhattan.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Castro returned to his family\u2019s cabin, not far from the Devil\u2019s Punchbowl Natural Center, a \u201cgeological wonder\u201d in the Angeles National Forest, which had been 95% destroyed during the Bobcat Fire. The charred, desecrated landscape became the inspiration for an apocalyptic vision of love, survival, and desire in a desolate realm that he made at the end of 2020, and later continued after securing his first grant in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Castro will be showing selections from the series in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/show\/galeria-hgz-rick-castro-braver-new-world-ciudad-de-mexico?sort=partner_show_position\"><em>Braver New World<\/em><\/a>, opening February 7 at the CDMX Art Festival in Mexico City. The exhibition, which takes its title from Aldous Huxley\u2019s dystopian 1932 novel, features 16 works made between 1989\u20132022 that \u201cdepict the state of the State and things to come,\u201d Castro says. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe images are visual experiences of my life, the highs and lows from innocence to fear, beauty, lust, betrayal, and death,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt\u2019s apropos and ironic that the photos I shot of the fires at the end of 2020 are now a reality. They are more relevant than when I shot them, but it\u2019s the same idea of global warming and how things can change in an instant.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castro remembers waking up the morning of the 8th to a black cloud hovering over Los Angeles. At 7:32am he texted his cousin with a photo of his front street: \u201cDude, this is apocalyptic scary. 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