Martin, who was a painter, resolutely took the side of the situationists against Nash. He’d
understood the stakes very well. He wasn’t a careerist at all. His only concession to the
commodity was to practice a rudimentary form of exchange: he offered his paintings to the
owners of bars who, in return, gave him drinks for free for years.
Raoul Vaneigem, Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International