Leonard Angelo Art

Futility of perfectionSomething done is truly somethingSurvive by accepting truth. Surviving acceptance.Horizon line

Not the Performative Part

Taking stock, then and nowNot exactly the journey I picturedEvidence suggests but the man protestsPermission to be exactly this

Socializing versus the Comfort of Solitude

Waking Without WantingAll that is Had is all that is WantedEnvy for the Accomplishment, not the LifeOrder of Operations: Mind-Body or Body-Mind?

One thing leads to some othersSelf-criticism and a funhouse mirror imageClimbing one false move at a timeCacophony of toxic inner voicesStuffing napkins in my ears instead of those nice earplugs I bought for the occasionRemembering the Sabbath, keeping that shit holyStrategically healthy and emotionally managed

The worst airport in the worldAn aggressive place to live and a hard time to be aliveChristmas and acts of aggressionDon’t ever take Century Blvd.

Irony as a stapleMeasuring out my life in semestersA different kind of ridiculous jobHigher educationGifting grades

Return to Form Right at the EndRenewed pledges, for what that’s worthAbout the journey, even if it leads back hereAnother decade invested, yielding returns, but this inflation is a killerStaring down a major new milestone and flinching a littleAnother list collected and repeated but also willing to burn itLooking forward to achieving “good enough”

Returning In-Person and As PersonGoing back into the real world after the Great Pause

A long journey of inquiry and discovery. Trying to fix this old machine.

Where I get stuck and an investigation into why.

Prompt 8 for #artsoundoff. Processing influences, inspiration and, as usual, insecurity.

Restating and reevaluating my relationship with beginnings – still in love song. Prompt 7 in the #artsoundoff challenge.

Showing some love for the Copic marker. Prompt 6 in the #artsoundoff challenge.

Prompt 4 for the #artsoundoff challenge. Making time for unproductive activity and not accounting for that time.

Art Soundoff prompt 3. Addressing feelings about creative challenges on social media.

Art Soundoff prompt 2. Some thoughts on sketchbooks and taking notes.

Happy to be participating in #artsoundoff challenge this year! Prompt 1 is Introductions, so I rambled about that for longer than necessary.

Observation, Process, Artifact Be a Brian, not a Bender

Latin: horizōn line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky limit or range of perception, knowledge, etc.

Linear perspective Subjective reality