The Saints of Los Angeles

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  03.12.08 | 9:59 AM ET

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There are 103 streets in Los Angeles named after saints, and artist J. Michael Walker has completed “an obsessive quest to locate, research and artistically interpret” all of them, from the iconic (Santa Monica Boulevard) to the private (St. Moritz Drive) to the immortalized in rock music (St. Andrews). It took Walker seven years to complete the project, which is currently on display at the Autry National Center.

Why chronicle the streets named after saints? “It makes you think about the fullness of humanity,” Walker told the New York Times, instead of “someone trying to cut you off as you turn left.”