All that California wildfire smoke? She’s turning it into smog art

The day after the Bobcat Fire began to blaze in Los Angeles County, Kim Abeles put five Titanic deck chairs on her roof.

That is, the artist made stencils from photographs of the deck chairs on the Titanic. She placed those cut images on pieces of scrap wood.

Abeles, 68, then laid those pieces of wood on the roof of her 100-year-old mother’s house in Pasadena, where she lives on the weekends as a caretaker.