Footprint Fight

Footprint Fight

Acrylic on Perma- plaque poem
The three authors who have most strenuously promoted their authorship are Margaret Powers (née Fishback), Carolyn Carty, and Mary Stevenson. Powers says she wrote the poem on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, in mid-October 1964. is among the contenders who have resorted to litigation in hopes of establishing a claim. She is occasionally confused with American writer Margaret Fishback. Powers published an autobiography in 1993.

Carolyn Carty also claims to have written the poem in 1963 when she was six years old, based on an earlier work by her great-great aunt, a Sunday school teacher. She is known to be a hostile contender of the "Footprints" poem and declines to be interviewed about it, although she writes letters to those who write about the poem online. A collection of poetry by Carty with a claim to authorship of "Footprints" was published in 2004.

Mary Stevenson is also a purported author of the poem circa 1936. A Stevenson biography was published in 1995, written by Gail Brewer-Giorgio, who had previously become famous for perpetuating the conspiracy theory that Elvis Presley might still be alive.

Details:
– Medium: Acrylic Painting on Perma-plaque Footprint poem
– One-of-a-kind original
– 7.25” x 9”
– Unframed

Only one exists. This piece will not be reproduced.

Created by Brian DeCicco (Daring Buffalo Hunter), whose work reimagines discarded materials into unique, expressive forms.