I liked the Art work, being lame does not seem to have hurt you at all. If it was a crash and burn you would be like the phoenix, but for now just a lame artist. The bottom is a good place to start. I don't know why so many people worry about being at the bottom, there is no where to fall, I guess one issue with being at the bottom is catching the ones that fall from the top, and some of them fall a long way and they hurt when they hit the bottom rung people, I know from experience having been hit one or two a few times, from those that were high up.
I think HF22 I am going to try to not say a word about, but yeah, who am I kidding. Stupid time of day or not to post, its a stupid time of day for me to still be up, so I am glad you picked a stupid time to post. I just wish the four cent rung would stop moving, then I might feel like I am making progress and regressing.
I like both the pieces, I think the top one has more going on visually for me than the bottom one, but I still keep looking at the "where to now" one. It is almost like the two pieces are polar opposites of each other, but they are both happy pictures, even though one looks like death and the other like life. You do a nice job of showing happy dead things, I guess they have different burdens than the living things.