WATTS TOWERS BY SAM RODIA

From 1921 to 1954, the Italian-born tile Sabato Rodia (1879–1965), dubbed Sam, regarded as completely nuts by his entourage, erected these three eccentric towers made of pipes, bed frames, colored glass, broken potteries, and Today, these seventeen vertiginous sculptures still stand in the district of Watts, a poor and reputable district that is vitiated by an exciting cultural life and promises a certain gentrification. The Watts Tower became an art center where live music and meetings took place regularly. They are also the symbol of a certain underground, that of the marginalized, of the blacks and of the left-to-side of the angeleno dream.