Ensuring no retreat, Herenan Cortés, burnt his fleet. [1/1] Cortés [1485-1547] was a a Spanish Conquistador, who appropriated the land that is now Mexico.

Ship image adapted from this article: https://chiefexecutive.net/fearless-founders-dont-burn-ships/

The flames were adapted from my prior work "✴︎Conflagration✴︎" which is an animated adaptation of art by Alycia Rainaud (@maalavidaaa)

https://opensea.io/assets/0x6a5ff3ceecae9ceb96e6ac6c76b82af8b39f0eb3/9554

This piece is highly biographical, it is an symbolic of the artists' lifelong battles with alcohol abuse, and celebrates 1 year of sobriety.

This is my third signed work on the blockchain.

This work bears a 10% royalty back to the original artist, Collin RΞkT.Ξth. Thank you sincerely for your patronage.