Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets - Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker

artist-author j michael walker with his Santa Clara Street print, from all the saints of the city of the angels on Santa Clara Street, foto by Luis Sinco
"Here, by the railroad tracks, amid truck dust and scrap yards, runs Santa Clara Street, southeast of Downtown LA. This patron saint of embroiderers, a follower of St. Francis, had sought the privilege of absolute poverty; and one senses she found it here, among the razor-wired sweatshops lining her meager two-block-long street."
-- J Michael Walker

Cover of All the Saints of the City of the Angels by J Michael Walker, Heyday Books 2008
“Walker sees angels everywhere, the divine in the ordinary, saints in survivors. And that, in our era of fear and rage, is miracle enough for me.”
 -Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo





Updated 15 May 2008.

Photograph of Author-Artist J Michael Walker on Santa Clara Street, by Luis Sinco, October 2007. Used by Permission.
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