Kelly Akashi, an artist, was one of thousands who lost their houses in last winter’s Eaton wildfire in Los Angeles. Her new sculpture for the Whitney Biennial marks one year of slow recovery.
On Jan. 7, 2025, high Santa Ana winds lashed Los Angeles. The wildfire danger was extreme. By evening, as the Pacific Palisades burned across town, Kelly Akashi took her cat, Turnip, and a few keepsakes and left her house in Altadena, in the San Gabr... [744 chars]