"Every image is a narrative as well as an exacting reproduction of a contemporary scene. Storch’s use of the warmth and light of old Los Angeles as well as its architecture elicit the nostalgic feeling of a different era. Many of her paintings are local scenes of Pasadena, a self-contained town where the look of the past is easily seen in the present." http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/127497936247/summer-porch-2012-sally-storch-american-oil