“For the next handful of years, his work was passed by millions of cars, with a
precious group of them aware of the quiet rebellion whizzing by above. For
some, it was a statement about doing it yourself; for others, a statement about
the nature of art in a highway-ruled metropolis.”
“Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost
periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants
making the perilous journey from Guangdong.”