Don Ed Hardy is one of the most important figures in the United States who works in the integration of pop culture and fine art. He is a first-rate painter and by general consensus, is the most important tattoo artist of his generation. 2000 Dragons is Hardy’'s masterpiece, conceived in 1976 and finished in 2000. The work is an installation of some 500 feet in length, that winds snake-like through its site. In Cuenca, where he represented the United States at the Bienal, the site was a 16th century cathedral, the oldest in the Western hemisphere.