Thao likes to revise her work until she feels that she has got it right.  The problem with that process is that it leads to works which will probably never be complete in her eyes.  There is a variation of that process which involves creating a new version after declaring a work good enough.  I like the second variation better since we get to enjoy two good works instead of one!  To encourage that outcome, I keep an amply supply of blank canvases of all sizes on hand.  Hoisting the Colors is a tribute to the magnificence of the sunset on St. Pete's shore, and it is perhaps a smaller version of Eventide.  In many ways the same, and in many ways different.  I'm wondering if there will be another.