la  Virgen  de  Guadalupe
Drawings by Los Angeles-based artist J. Michael Walker
"For me, Mexico and the spiritual realm are forever entwined. Similarly, whenever I invoke the Divine, I instinctively portray a woman.  Perhaps then, it is only natural that I should fall under the spell - along with tens of millions of other devotees - of the Virgin of Guadalupe, whom I portray as a real Mexican woman of Indian descent, going about the myriad tasks by which women hold the world together "

(Icon of the Indian Virgin)

Guadalupe and Don Cesar

(Heavenly Mother)

(Letter from Her Son)

(Midafternoon at Her Embroidery)

(The Infant Virgin of Guadalupe)

(Ironing, Thinking)

(Getting Ready)