"Since this portrait, complete with beautiful hand-carved 18th century frame, now hangs in my San Diego studio, here’s a little about it. Cody was perhaps the first Californian I had met, and I knew him in Tokyo, where I painted this. He didn’t stay there long however, and perhaps not surprisingly went on to have a career in the adult entertainment industry, as people call it nowadays..." Binnie, Jun 24, 2019
