Only One Way To Earn Spurs
16x20” inches
Acrylic on Canvas
2018
Believe it or not, I'm not lying when I say these are my spurs. Meaning they are MY spurs, I earned them as anyone else would: Falling off a horse and getting back on it. The real story is more exciting to tell in person, I promise you that, but the spurs really do symbolize something I've internalized as I've gotten older. That its not the one time you finally succeed that counts, but every time you've tried before that does. Every failure builds you up, makes you stronger and smarter and ready try again. And I may fail, then I go back and try again and come back smarter, then I may fail again. So on and so on. Its the path any person has to walk in this life. More then that, its the lifestyle of every artist before me and every artist after. To try, fail, learn, grow, and fail again. These spurs helped teach me that failure is not final, its just learning. And I should never be too prideful to learn, and always spur onward.