It seemed great. It would be my own little Vegas Sistine Chapel. But Rob didn't think it was right to use school resources to create the image. He thought he might be reprimanded. He didn't feel good about it.
Artistic freedom can be a risky proposition when there's funding involved.
I asked him what it would cost to do it using just my money, and I wrote a check. And that, gentle reader, is how I became the first person to commission one of these works. Well, look on the next page. That's how good it came out. It came out so sexy, so blasphemous and so powerful that . . .