RAINBOW

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A rainbow. There's no better sentiment to bring in the new year. To your health!

SUNSET

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In the spirit of not being the Doom who stole Christmas, I present this holiday-friendly, politically neutral photograph I shot in December 1999.

STUCK MARKET

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This is what I think about the stock market. The whole thing is contrived, and it [Wall St.] Fs up the country, the economy, and the world. This sculpture was illegally dropped off in Manhattan 21 years ago beneath a Christmas tree on Broad St. Read the wiki page here.

MOURNING DOVE

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This is a mourning dove. I used to think it was a morning dove, like, early in the morning. But they spell it like mourning? Their call is hard to explain, but that's probably where it got its name. I shot this on a 1991 December morning.

LION

My friend Frank opened the Village Squire, a high fashion men's clothing store in Greenwich Village, whose success led to the opening of two new stores. His clientele ranged from the Japanese to Diana Ross to pimps. After 20 years he retired to the Hamptons in the late 70s and here are his cats...

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Sun & Moon Daily Witnessed the Slaughter From the Get-Go

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In this painting I just went into it blindly, filling up the space until the story unfolded and led me to the proper conclusion: The red is the evil pressing in on mankind, and through eons of slaughter, the sun and the moon always remain as witnesses.

PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD

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One day I walked into my son's room and he'd hung all these centerfolds up. My wife and I were ok with this, we figured it's better than posters of football or baseball players. The funny thing about it was the fact that a prepubescent kid had plastered his walls with naked women while sleeping on Superman sheets.