1. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Lepidozamia peroffskyana seed no.5 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Lepidozamia peroffskyana seed no.5, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 3.5 x 2.5 x 1 inches


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  2. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Encephalartos whitelockii seed grouping LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Encephalartos whitelockii seed grouping


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  3. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Nelumbo nucifera no.5 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Nelumbo nucifera no.5, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 3.5 x 3 x 3 inches

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  4. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Encephlartos no.1 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Encephlartos no.1, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 6 x 4.5 x 1.5 inches


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  5. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.8 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.8, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 9 x 1 x 1 inches


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  6. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.5 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.5, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 9 x 1 x 1 inches


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  7. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.4 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.4, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 11 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches


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  8. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.6 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.6, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 10 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches


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  9. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.7 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.7, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 11 x 2 x 1 inches


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  10. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.3 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.3, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 11 x 2 x 2 inches


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  11. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.1 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.1, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 9 x 3 x 2 inches


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  12. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.2 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Aechmea no.2, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 10 x 3 x 2 inches


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  13. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Bromeliad no.1 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Bromeliad no.1, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 11 x 2 x 2 inches


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  14. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Bromeliad no.2 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Bromeliad no.2, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 10 x 2 x 2 inches


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  15. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Nelumbo nucifera no.4 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Nelumbo nucifera no.4, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 3.5 x 3 x 3 inches

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    ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2025
  16. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Encephalartos whitelockii pod grouping LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Encephalartos whitelockii pod grouping


    ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ZOE CROSHER 2025
  17. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Brachychiton no.1 LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

    LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (Lotusland) Brachychiton no.1, 2015, Unique bronze cast, 16 x 6 x 4 inches


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LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books

A publication inspired by a residency project at Ganna Walska Lotusland, envisioned and supported by Yasmine Mohseni and Sam Zodeh, this forthcoming publication presents the fruits of these endeavors, published by X Artists’ Books in Los Angeles.

“In LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics (2015-2017), Zoe Crosher casts the sex organs of Lotusland’s exotic flowers. Opened to the public in 1933, the botanical garden originally belonged to “Madame Ganna Walska, a well-known Polish opera singer and socialite … whereby Madame (as she is known) spent the next forty-three years creating her ‘collection’ of exotic plants.”14 Crosher explores the garden as a site of collection, with particular archival practices that attend to constant, organic fluctuations. Plants are not static objects but live at a nexus of environmental and genetic factors. Inspired by photographic documentation, Crosher casts “the reproductive elements of exotic plants … that blossom prior to the end of their life cycle, preserving the ephemeral—and in some case rare and endangered—plant matter into bronze sculptures.” She uses a “lost wax” process, whereby the original plant material is destroyed. Though the resulting sculptures boast a more stable existence, they are void of potency, enduring instead as gilded and heavy afterimages of a flower’s fertility.”

- Caroline Picard, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening, forthcoming from Green Lantern Press, September 2016

Courtesy of Lotusland, Yasmine Mohseni and Sam Zodeh

Projects
  • The New LA-LIKE
    1. LA-LIKE: Sunlight As Spotlight
    2. LA-LIKE: Prospecting Palm Fronds
    3. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics
    4. LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific
    5. LA-LIKE: LA Imaginary As Unlit Lightboxes
    6. LA-LIKE: Fools Gold Dust (Mimic) Paintings
    7. LA-LIKE: Day For Night (or Sunlight As Spotlight)
    8. The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, in conjunction with LAND
    9. LA-LIKE: Mirage
    10. Shangri-LA'd & Expanded Shangri-LA'd
    11. LA-LIKE: Composition I-10, Desert Center
    12. The Manifest Destiny Billboard Perfume
    13. LA Disappearing Frond-Like
    14. LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific, Dessert Concepts & Recipes
    15. For An Evening with Eve Babitz, at the Chateau Marmont
    16. Tear Sheet Posters
    17. LA-LIKE (LOST)
    18. LA-LIKE: LAXART Billboard
    19. The Pools I Shot
    20. LA-LIKE
  • The Michelle duBois Project
    1. The Uniqued Series
    2. The Additive Dust Series
    3. Mae Wested
    4. The Disbanding of Michelle duBois
    5. The Vanishing of Michelle duBois
    6. The Disappearing of Michelle duBois
    7. The Other Disappeared Nurse
    8. Silhouetted
    9. All Her Shadows
    10. Blackened Last Four Days & Nights in Tokyo
    11. Almost the Same
    12. The Unveiling of Michelle duBois
    13. The Unraveling of Michelle duBois
    14. Posed Postcards
    15. Polaroided
    16. The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois
    17. Obfuscated
  • The Santa Cruz Kids
  • Out The Window (LAX)
  • The Fainting Club
    1. The Fainting Club (London)
    2. The Fainting Club (New York)
    3. The Fainting Club (Los Angeles)
    4. The Fainting Club (More Cities)
    5. The Fainting Club (About)
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  • Publications
    1. LA-LIKE: Escaped Exotics / The Bronzed Blossoms of Madame, published by X Artists' Books
    2. The Good & The Glamorous, A Memoir of Misremembering & The Cold War
    3. LA-LIKE: Transgressing the Pacific, Published by Hesse Presse, Los Angeles, CA - Spring 2016 (Sold Out)
    4. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles (May 2015) Published by Metropolis Books
    5. Forthcoming: The Re-duBois Book
    6. Returning to Berlin / Publication curated by Kim Schoen - Motto, Berlin (August 2013)
    7. Why Art Photography? by Lucy Soutter (2013) Published by Routelage
    8. Volume 4: The Disappearance of Michelle duBois, aka *Mitchi* (Fall 2012) Published by Aperture Ideas
    9. Volume 3: The Unveiling of Michelle duBois, aka *Cricket* (Spring 2012) Published by Aperture Ideas
    10. Volume 2: The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, aka *Alice Johnson* (Fall 2011) Published by Aperture Ideas
    11. Volume 1: The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois, aka *Kathy* (Spring 2011) Published by Aperture Ideas
    12. Out the Window (LAX) with essays by Norman Klein, Pico Iyer, & Julian Meyers (2007)
    13. NTNTNT (2004)
    14. L.A. Now: Volume One, Published by Art Center College of Design, August 2002