Angels Camp is one of California’s most historic mining towns. It was at the heart of the Gold Rush, and it was here that Mark Twain first heard the story of the jumping frog that he would eventually write about. His words would make the town world famous. I found other words here – words lathered on a brick wall in an alley. There are layer upon layer of signs here, reaching from today, back into the long history of this colorful place. And so I made this richly colored image, filled with words and partial words and fragments of words that together create a historical quilt that can carry us back to other days and other times.