Work samples

  • Hercules beetle and flowers
    Hercules beetle and flowers

    The hercules beetle, I found him in what is known locally as the "pots", stuck among slime and some flowers. It was incredible. This is a digital drawing reenactment. 

About Leo

Artist with concentration on city improvement. Illustrated a variety of unpublished (secret) books.

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Park Path

 

I'm a security guard and I spend a bunch of my day looking out at a meaty road that runs between an art museum and a park. Cars zip up and down the 50', 4 lane gray abomination, no bulb outs, no easement. Just jerks, scooting too fast to beat the lights at either end of the motorway. This is a running project about my frustrations, not only with this, a spot that is supposed to be a city gem, a thing that makes people want to come to and enjoy, but that the same treatment is applied even more callously in the areas where people actually live. I am working in digital drawings, fantasy of crossable roads. 

  • Park path, bright opening
    Park path, bright opening

    A bunch of foxes live in the dell and in the sculpture garden. Sometimes, a big owl will make itself seen. Natural paths come back, the pavement, whatever is in the way, Rivers and deer cut right back through. I saw a woodcock onetime. It was just sitting there, playing dead. Then it flew up in my face.

  • Park path, broken road
    Park path, broken road

    During the pandemic a bunch of roadways were closed off for recreation. My eyes were opened to just how little roadway driver really need to get around the city. If half of the roadways were to disappear tomorrow drivers would wake up just as miserable as they are now. Not only that, with half the road turned into path, maybe they should walk.   

  • Park path, reclaim the road
    Park path, reclaim the road

    A drawing I made about perceptions to access. Parks and museums are often segmented off in cities, intentionally wrapping areas of natural play from the not natural, normal life activities. They are for much of the time thin areas. These public pedestals are too often strangled behind thick roadways and lack the features that actually make them vital to the buzz of a city. Walking paths, the stringing parks together, art and living creatures. Lose individual and added thick, building, collective. If you make this stuff too precious, nobody is going to use it.