By Marty McCorkle, oil painting on canvas, 22 x 30 inches, 2001. Sold.
Keep going no matter what, like a steamboat captain who chops down down the ships wooden pilot house to feed the engine when the coal runs out.
Then he tosses the ship's wooden deck into the engine fire.
Then his clothes.
Then himself. So the ship can keep going.
Keep going, because a crowd of people are waiting for the artist to arrive at a place of artistic clarity.
An artist is never alone, nor forgotten, nor poor, as long as he is moving forward as an artist.