Los Angeles-based visual artist Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. has long felt the changes in his surroundings. “I think it is sad that we’re losing these different nuances that make places beautiful and interesting and have this character and culture,” said Gonzalez Jr. “I’m trying to capture this moment in time because I feel like this is one of the last moments that things will look and feel the way they do.” Gonzalez Jr.’s work preserves public spaces and fixtures of L.A. in his landscape art, embodying worn surfaces aged with years of embedded memories, cracks and fragments of paint chipped over decades. His pieces serve as commentaries on displacement — the…