"Back in spring 2000 I was thumbing through the index of the Thomas Guide, a book of Los Angeles street maps, when it struck me how many streets there are named for saints - in this city named for a saint (Our Lady of the Angels). I decided to track the histories of all these streets, and the stories of all these saints, to see how they might connect - and what their moments of convergence might say about our cultural heritage. The result, in over one hundred paintings and dozens of stories, poems, and songs, is my meditation on, and tribute to, Los Angeles."
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