This painting expresses how I feel leaping into the art world. Translating big ideas into compositions and brushstrokes is a big enough challenge, but contemporary art practice demands the tangential imperative to self-promote on social media. It’s a relatively new paradigm where digital savvy is as essential to the practice of contemporary oil painters as pigments and turpentine. The creative process is not complete until the hashtags are posted and socially assimilated. This polyptych is intentionally agile - the panels may be purchased and presented individually or collectively, in a variety of configurations and combinations.