The artist, Adam Simon, writes:

This painting actually went to someone I know. At first I said no because that didn't seem like the best use of FAAN. Not like the painting reaching out and grabbing some stranger out there in cyberspace. But Gordon is someone I have known most of my life. He is either just under or just over 100 years old. He lives in a cabin on a lake in New Hampshire by himself and his wife was a painter. He is one of my favorite people to talk to. I am delighted that he wanted Triad.