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sabato rodia
early life and career sabato rodia, also known as simon rodia, was an italian immigrant who lived in the united states. born in serino, italy in 1879, he spent most of his adult life in los angeles, where he built the watts towers, a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics. the watts towers: a masterpiece of outsider art the watts towers are an example of outsider art (or art brut) and italian-american naïve art. designed and built solely by rodia over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954, the tallest tower…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of sabato rodia's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
