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28" x 28" Iris print on Somerset heavyweight archival water color paper, from a special edition of 50, signed & numbered by the artist, Winston Smith.
Unmatted/unframed
Cover image for the Green Day LP/CD titled "Insomniac" - Originally titled "God Told Me To Skin You Alive, 1995". According to Mr. Smith - "I knew (Green Day's drummer) Tre Cool when he lived up in Northern California. One day he gave me a call and asked if I'd do a record cover for the band he was in. Without knowing anything much about them, I said "sure". My title for the piece was a reference to a comicbook-style religious tract that Jello Biafra and I used for a poster included with the first Dead Kennedys album.
Bill instantly got the reference the moment I showed it to him. He asked how long it took me to create and I said that, not counting the two weeks prior - which were consumed with locating and high-grading hundreds of images for the winnowing-out process - I'd spent the last 38 hours working on the assembly of the composition. He asked me how it was possible for me to stay awake that long and I said, 'It's easy for me. I'm an insomniac'.
The original working title for Green Day's album was to be "Tightwad Hill". I don't know if my telling them that I'd stayed up 38 hours straight to create the cover art inspired the final title of the record but, if not, it's a weird coincidence."
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