The Provider Mug

24x18in acrylic on canvas This is the post I made after a fever dream the other day, it is the inspiration for this piece. "Just woke up from a really strange dream and had to write this down. In the dream there didn't seem to be anybody I knew, just these almost old prohibition era type gangsters all smooth talking and trying to one up each other, vying for a top position. But the person at the top of this bunch had something happen. I couldn't tell for sure what exactly but, but it left him alone and weakened. I began to see this visual of a tree losing all it's branches and leaves. The one branch near the top was weakly swaying back and forth,.. dying. Vulnerable to attack from the other gangsters vying for that top spot I imagine....