"50 Christmases at AIPSO", Gift to Irene Sidoti on her Retirement, Acrylic on Canvas and Board, September 2026
My boss Irene Sidoti is retiring this week after 50 years at the same company. 50 years! It's a huge step and well-deserved. She's been a great boss. Now, as summer went on, I wanted to show her how much we appreciated her and remembered taking a photograph of the Christmas tree in the lower lobby last year, and realized I could make a painting of it. I also wanted something else, so much to her office one day when she wasn't around and took some pictures. I wanted her to be able to look at this and remember a half century serving so strongly at this wonderful company. In the end, I decided to literally glue the smaller desk image (framed) to the larger lobby painting. And here is my progressive video for the two paintings.
