“Cruising Mulholland, you take it all in, rugged mountains rising up from the sea, mansions perched on hilltops, giant succulents like saxophones, and the vast grid of the city spread out below.” Karen Halverson
American photographer Karen Halverson fell in love with Mulholland in 1988 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. There she saw David Hockney’s exuberant painting, “Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio.” Halverson moved to Los Angeles a few years later, and soon discovered the real-life Mulholland, the iconic road that runs along the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains, bisecting the city. She had long been engaged in photographing the landscape of the American West. But Mulholland offered up something unique, a dramatic physical landscape in the heart of a major metropolitan area. She drove the voluptuous curves of the road countless times over the course of two years.
