FINE ART
Below are series created at different turning points in Leslie’s career. Each chapter resounds on her canvases telling bits and pieces of her life.
The Allegory
![]() Take Dominion | ![]() The Allegory | ![]() The Allegory |
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![]() Baptized | ![]() The Allegory | ![]() Under Trial |
![]() The Allegory | ![]() DNA | ![]() The Allegory |
Prophecies and Predictions
I believe all our affections are in response to our DNA, what we were created to do. "The Allegory" is a body of work I feel gives simplicity to some of the most thought provoking scriptures. I wanted to bring passion and visual depth to some words that kept me in line with my end goal as well as display some of the beautiful mystery and love our Creator has for us.
Created in 2013-14. Prophecies and Predictions depicts a level of peace, understanding and resilience to things that would quickly make my spirit tense like abrasive or rude people. I used the female subject to represent the strength, wickedness and fragility many experience extending from the vices like substance addiction or meditation they lean on for stability. These pieces allowed me to experient with diffused and backlit light to set a mood of enlightenment, warmth, deception and danger. The things of the world once trapped me like bad relationships and the value of perspective has been a huge comfort in the growth reflected in this body of work. I also discovered doors I should never open and now see the times I was unaware and vunerable to the negative company I kept.
Heaven Earth and the In-Betweens
In 2011, Heaven, Earth and the In-Betweens started with a vision of a nude girl covered in a full lamb skin. After much time in meditation I decided I would begin this very different color pallet to bring about these ideas I couldn't stop thinking about. After I completed the girl in "Reversed" the rest of the painting and the series came to mind. I quickly began to see exactly what these pieces meant to me as I was rummaging up all the old feelings of regret, sorrow, and ultimately redemption in that first piece. This body is one of my most vunerable in terms of journaling for the world to see. The battles I went through from 2002-2010 were flowing from my brushes, I began laying these dead bodies to rest. Alcholism, lust, drugs, and lack of disernment travels through these works but the most personal of them all is "Self Deception". "Self Deception" exudes some of the darkest parts of me. It reveals the brokeness of my poor choices to seek life without my Creator and the demonic torture it leads to which is ultimately an endless sea of emptiness.
The Red Letter
![]() Redeemed Series | ![]() Redeemed Series | ![]() Redeemed Series |
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![]() Redeemed Series | ![]() Never Look Back-closeup | ![]() Red Letter 1 |
![]() Red Letter 2 | ![]() Red Letter 3 | ![]() Reach |
In 2010 I created "The Red Letter". "The Red Letter" represents my promise to do my best to keep promises to the ones I love and walk into my purpose. These came at a time where I was trying to transition my more expressive boldly colored pieces into more of a story of how I related to the world. At the time I was burnt out from a couple years of art shows and wanted do something that meant more to me, I wanted to go deeper. This body allowed me to explore lighting, a select color pallet and the female form.
Sound Series
![]() Jimi Hendrix | ![]() City of Hendrix | ![]() Nas |
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![]() erykah badu | ![]() Dizzy Gillespie | ![]() Elvis Presley |
![]() Audrey Hepburn |
In 2005 I proclaimed to myself that it was time to create something that liberated myself and not try to please family, friends or school. In my apartment in Nob Hill in San Francisco was precisely where I was going to create. After a week I had createed art based on the music I was lisening to and was inspired by.