This is the biography and partial autobiography of Eddie Owens Martin later known as St. Eom. For the first 30 years of his life, he was a street hustler and a petty criminal and for last years an outsider artist until he committed suicide. Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes contributed colored photographs of Martin and his artwork that he created for his house in Georgia. St. Eom's style was vividly colored abstractions as well as Buddha-like sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.