I am an ass monkey.
Eric is a funny man. When we were in art school Eric treated his space more like a treehouse than a studio. on the wall that greeted the person approaching his fort, the phrase “I am an ASS monkey” was gleefully (and neatly) painted in black with a half-inch wide paintbrush. It is during that semester that I became a friend of Eric’s. And I think that sign has coloured everything I have thought about Eric since then.