This is a painting I started several years ago. It is of myself and 3 of my best friends from college, David Stickney, Tom Mulrey and Josh Hayes. We were known in college collectively as "The Junk Squad", (which is a long story in itself). The painting is based on a photo that was taken many years after college, when we all happened to be visiting another friend of ours for an annual brush-burning party. As the years passed and we had all gone our separate ways, the opportunities for these kind of group photos became less and less. I wanted to commemorate the gathering and the friendship with something with a bit more feeling than a snapshot, so I started this 16" x 20" acrylic on canvas painting.
But before I was able to finish it, I got sidetracked with one thing or another, and before I knew it several years had passed. Then our friend Dave, (on the far left), got sick and died last year.
On the anniversary of his passing this year, I was finally compelled to finish it off.
Time and friends, often slip away from us while we aren't paying attention.
