“Ana” is a painting I did as a sort of homage to both a Pixies song by the same name and a painting by Gustav Klimt. At the time I did this painting, I had been throwing the idea around of doing my own rendition of Gustav’s “Judith II” but wanted to use some of the visual aspects from the lyrics of the track “Ana” off the Pixies “Bossonova” album. The result is what you see above after melding both ideas together with a paintbrush and a night of heavy drinking. Acrylic on board, 1999.