I finished the first fivefold painting and hung it on the wall at the next party. Two days later it was sold—for a not-ridiculous amount, but more than I had ever expected to make—to a music executive chasing Ethio-jazz to its source in the hope of profit. He, in turn, hung it on his wall in New York City and explained that you had to see all of it at once, and this complexity of approach—as much as the content—was admired by a Rockefeller, a Heinz and two Kennedys, and the editor of Time .