I went to the West Village to draw. It was very hot so I popped into Joe’s Pizza on Carmine Street to get a soda. It’s considered one of New York’s top pizza joints. The walls are filled with tons of photographs of celebrities who have visited. But what caught my eye was an oversized photo of a beautiful model standing in front of Joe’s holding a leash with her pet llama. I was stunned because it was from a television commercial I shot 30 years ago. I was filming outside a grocery store next to Joe’s. An employee must have went out front and taken the photo. I never knew it was hanging in the pizza place all these decades. I’m like an animal marking my territory.
