Create a grid view with image links to taxonomy, overriding or replacing node links

I am creating a store category grid view block with thumbnails that can be easily selected via the sticky filter. This makes it easy for my client to maintain the thumbnails himself just by switching the sticky flags, without any special handling such as FTP of thumbnails for a custom block. (see attachment)

I created a grid view block containing thumbnails of sample products in each category using the node sticky filter. I selected an image field and taxonomy terms field with "as links" option. I use a taxonomy redirect to direct the taxonomy link back to the view with the selected category when a category is clicked on.

There's only one problem: I can't set the image link to point to taxonomy, only the link below it which shows the taxonomy term, has the link. The image can either have no link or a node link, which is not what I want -- I want the link to the taxonomy term.

It would work for me to hard-code the link in this case for each image, but I'm not sure how to do that. Ideally, if it could pick up the taxonomy term link automatically, that would be terrific and probably useful for more applications.

This might be a feature request if the maintainers of this module think it's worthwhile and not too difficult to add an option for the image field to link to a taxonomy term, or a help from someone on a code snippet work-around if not. I've dug around quite a bit for a solution but maybe I missed something that's out there already?