Marty McCorkle🎨

Ganymede. Acrylic paint and graphite on paper. 12 x 9 inches.

climate change advocate. He will be missed. Good night Marty and I love you

This is Marty's husband Esteban. Marty passed away at 1:30pm Saturday, July 30,2022 pacific time. He died peacefully in the comfort of his love ones. Thank you all for the comfort knowing you been following him as an artist. He was huge animal lover, environmentalist, and

"There is peace even in the storm." - Vincent van Gogh The Storm. Oil paint on canvas. 41 x 50 inches.

Jasmine. Illustration for upcoming book of poetry by Dolor Panergo. 12x9 inches.

Thank you Earth. Today, no one shall make me afraid safe in the world you made. For a few more times, let me sit in the mangrove's shade, a moment alone at home with you. Like a doting grandparent, you gave us everything you had and never lorded it over us. Thanks, Earth.

I am dying. My planet's livable climate is falling. My culture is fading fast. I live today deliberately, intensely, with an urgent zest not unlike what is captured in this music. Be as gossamer as a flitting butterfly & as unmovable as a mountain. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PNHrzs…

"DER SCHWER GEFASSTE: Muss es sein? ....Es muss sein!" ("Difficult Decision: Must it be? It must be!") -Ludwig van Beethoven, penned upon the manuscript of the 16th string quartet, Op. 135, in F major. Paddling Home. Black and white chalk pencil on painted paper. 8 x 10 inches.

I wish I had spent more time at the office, painting, painting.

"dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." - Walt Whitman

"When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." - Alan Watts Our World Is A Floating World. Acrylic paint on canvas. 33 x 44 inches.

"We do not 'come into' this world; we grew out of it – just as an apple tree apples, the earth peoples." - Alan Watts Goodbye Song. Oil paint on paper. 10 x 8 inches.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Rousseau People Mover. Oil paint on canvas. 24x30 inches.

"There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet." - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot The Refugee. Oil paint on canvas. 36x48 inches.

"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that." - Samuel Beckett The Border Guards. Oil paint on canvas. 48x36 inches.

"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable The Artist Fallng Down. Oil paint on canvas. 40x40 inches.

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but I see you, and that sight becomes this art." - Rumi Esteban. Acrylic paint on paper. 8 x 10 inches.

I thank you Earth for this most amazing day, for the mangrove trees, and for the sunny then silver sky and for nature, which springs back from vast tragedies, is ever reinventing, always still arriving, and conjured me into existence for a short stay with you. Thanks, Earth.

"and it's you who are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you" -E.E. Cummings Sun Setting Over The Sea of Samar. Acrylic paint on canvas. 34x46 inches.