
My long time friend and collector of my art, Serena Jane Dean's (pictured right with halo) mother, Lillian (at left with halo) was remarried to a man named Vincent Cancino who's HIV had been escalating leading to him dying of AIDS. Lillian wanted me to make a family portrait as she held vigil for him. Her son is behind her, Serena's and my close friend Alison Parisi is the other female in the shot and I am in the corner wearing a Gucci watch.