This is a portrait of a sweet friend, the Oaxacan ceramacist Alejandra Galan Morga. I set her, holding gladiolas, in a little niche of the extraordinary tile-covered church of Acatepec, in the Mexican state of Puebla.

Alejandra en Acatepec

by J Michael Walker, 2002 Color pencil on paper, 38" high x 50" wide Private collection