A bonus last night was bumping into Ed at Nayland’s talk. He recently completed a portrait of me, and took the opportunity of our bumping into each other to deliver the piece, collaborative in the sense that I provided an image for him to work from, an image of me in a pose that was originally taken from a painting by Giovanni Bellini and tweaked by Jack Radcliffe for a portait that I did of him. I suppose it would be called something like “Ed’s Portrait of Coco after Coco’s Radcliffe after Bellini.” Ed was kind enough to augment my chest with a denser pelt and perky red nipples. It looks fabulous on my mantle, the pink of my skin playing nicely against the fake pink carnation that Reeses puts in front of Mack’s portrait–also on the mantle–whenever he comes over, to cover Mack’s nudity. They make a very nice installation. Thanks, Ed!!