Drunk on inspiration, my pilot razor point began the recreation of one of my favorite scenarios: a dismembered Adolph Hitler melting over a swastika sculpture. I originally conceived this idea while in Thacker's world history class. High on art and life, the first melting Hitler drawing emerged unconsciously while I sat in the midst of thirty other high school students and eavesdropped on a whining lecture on the politics of post-war Germany. While the original drawing was sacrificed for a higher purpose, the memory of the werk will someday manifest as an elaborate, full-scale painting. This sketch - one of several replications of the original -- employs vertical hatching for a ghost-like appearance, and an overhead light source for supernatural connotations. Again notice the presence of the wine paraphernalia, which was also present thirteen years ago in the original composition, indicating a genuine fascination and internalization of the wine glass motif.