goodbye priest painting

I sold my priest painting today. It was the only painting I never wanted to sell but this year I realized it was time. This painting was painted at a very strange and difficult itme in my life in 1999. The strangeness that surrounded me was expressed in oil paints on a 4 foot by 5 foot canvas. I have turned down countless offers to buy this work but I decided it was time to put the past behind me. My landlord convinced me to sell it to him and I will miss it but it was time to let it go. It is a landmark of many things, a relationship, a time that I was struggling to survive and in very dire straits and my total and insane dedication to art at all costs...I painted this in tompkins sq. park in 1999 and the nyc police all surrounded me and took a photo with the piece because they loved it. A vietnam vet was driven to tears and never painted another in this dali insane style.

all things must pass.