The Hot Shot

Richard H. Love The Hot Shot, 2001 Oil on Canvas 48 x 40 Inches Signed LL and Verso

Hotshot was the so-called nickname several of my friends tagged one of the guys we rode with. The way he got the name was to constantly show off in front of anyone who would watch. He was very intelligent and got high grades until he saved his money to buy the bike. He even turned his back on a scholarship in engineering at a very prominent University. We all told him to which the picture here implies: The symbols include the old man who sits on a folding chair playing his folk tunes. He was not interested in Hotshot's dilema. "School or not, the old man would sing for most of the day".” He was quite thin and didn't eat until 4 in the afternoon. The story is longer but too complicated to reveal here. Hint: Hotshot went to school, invented an important airplane defense instrument and became…..