Being and having was a play on psychoanalyst jacques lacin's idea that men have the palis, while women, as embodiment of erotic desire and art, are the pallus. The work being and having really shot you to fame. What made you decide to shoot them all on a golden yellow background? Well, in my living room in silver lake, i lived on sandborn av and i, you know, that how made all my early portraits was in my livingroom.