The World of Alana Malibu

Alana Malibu creates drawings of swimming pools hidden in the backyards of Los Angeles. Working from locations she discovers through Google Earth, she searches endlessly through the city from behind her screen, collecting glimpses of private worlds normally hidden from view.

The images she finds are often distant, pixelated and incomplete. Rather than using them as accurate references, Malibu treats them as starting points for imagination. She fills in the missing details, reimagining the spaces and transforming them into places that exist somewhere between reality and fiction.

Sunlight, tropical plants, still water and modernist architecture appear throughout her work, creating scenes that feel both familiar and unattainable. The drawings are not depictions of how these places actually look, but interpretations of how they might feel. They become imagined destinations, shaped as much by longing and fantasy as by the original locations themselves.

By using Google Earth as her point of departure, Malibu turns a tool designed for observation into a vehicle for escapism. Her work explores the tension between seeing and imagining, inviting viewers to drift away into dreamlike spaces rooted in reality but guided by fantasy.

A series of eight works is now available through [GRID] as signed limited editions in three different sizes. Each edition is printed on Gmund Cotton / Linen Cream paper, whose warm tone and subtle texture complement the dreamy atmosphere of the drawings.

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