Meet the man behind a now world-famous kaleidoscopic sculpture in Echo Park.
. At 66, he’s got a face with deep-seated smile lines that crack open whenever he meets a new person. He walks around with a pocketful of clear marbles and a lowball glass filled with white wine, uttering phrases like “that’s bitchin’!” with such excitement that you can’t help but agree with him.
The view is worth a grand reveal: As the afternoon sun pours through his huge freestanding sculpture, the curved glass bottles and marbles that hang from its large steel arches glow, becoming part of a multidimensional stained glass. A cyan and lime abstraction of the Virgin of Guadalupe radiates within an outline of gleaming red bottles. The massive stencil that Randy calls “bodacious Betty” lights up around the edges of her Afro from small marbles that refract like tiny stars.
“So I leaned close, put on my glasses, and I saw those 10,000-foot cumulus clouds shrunken and upside down inside each one,” he said. “And that blazing blue light was the sun itself. And that’s when I realized, ‘My god, I could make mosaics out of 1,000 blazing suns.’” “And if you position the lens,” he continued, “you can make an endless number of visual experiences or images.”Randy wasn’t always an artist in a traditional sense. Born on an “exotic island in New York Harbor” that most people know as Staten Island, he’s a self-dubbed Army brat whose family lived in Germany, Texas, New Mexico and Virginia before moving to California.
He left that job to work as an organizer for the United Farm Workers before he started managing local political campaigns and working as a writer for the Democratic whip in the California Legislature. Once he grew bored of that, he wandered around Mexico, staying afloat by importing duffel bags full of leather jackets that he resold in L.A.
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