Terminal 1, Departures Level, Connecting Hallway 

Flora (Flores amplificati), an immersive photomural installation by LA-based artist Laura Hull, captures the diverse floral beauty of the Los Angeles basin while referencing the abundance of cultures that make up the region’s populace.

The lush, dynamic vegetation of sun-drenched Southern California encompasses both native and non-native plant life. Cultivated by decades of local horticulturists experimenting with plants from around the world, this ecosystem provides Los Angeles with a rich cacophony of color and texture. The city itself contains a multitude of cultural histories, densely propagated with a myriad array of multicultural communities, ethnicities, and languages.

In Flora (Flores amplificati), Hull layers imagery of blossoms from the imported South American Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) and the native Saint Catherine’s Lace (Eriogonum giganteum), a species found on the Channel Islands of California, and luxuriously intertwines the two, as if the plants (one non-native and one endemic) are growing into each other and flourishing along the energized walls of the passageway. As LAX passengers move through this fertile bridge, their lateral journeys and the surrounding abundance of dense, towering growth intermingle in a hothouse of activity, creating an amplified synergy between traveler and flora.

Laura Hull’s fine art photography centers on her everyday life, using domestic spaces and objects as autobiographic gestures that encompass universal human nature. Hull’s artistic career started in the ceramic arts with two international apprenticeships and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. In 1989 she shifted to photography and began exhibiting in galleries and museums. She has taught ceramics and photography and has received multiple grants and public art commissions. She resides in Altadena with her husband.

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