To my mind, this is another Buddhist image, since the shape of his head is reminiscent of the top knot traditional monks wore their hair in. Titled Stupa, a term used to for architecture that also reflects back to this top knot, I did this painting after seeing a sculpture exhibition at the Asia Society by an artist named Montien Boonma who had dedicated the work to his wife who'd died, and then he passed away as well before the show. Mostly installations, what looked to be a million mantra beads strung and hung to create a temple, and much of the many clay pieces had flower petals mixed in so they had a glorious smell. The most powerful, for me, were a series of enormous heads, all wearing the top knot, that one could walk inside of; they were hung at a height that let light in through the eye sockets that the viewer could not see out of. I stood inside one and cried, then went back after seeing the rest of the exhibition and stood inside it and cried again. Because I had to.