Follow Your Consciousness, On A Night Time Trip To Westerpark In Amsterdam
Follow your consciousness, on a night time trip to Westerpark in Amsterdam
This drawing was made after a visit to Westerpark in Amsterdam. I made some sketches there at night and translated these into a pastel and pencil drawing the next morning. This is the older part of the park, that has a large pond or a small lake with an island in the middle and a large open field with trees and plant areas that in some cases have remains of human presence, like wall branches or nests made in trees and bushy areas. The park used to be known for being a gay cruising area, these days there is a small chance of making a friend, regardless of sex. The topic is not advised to use loosely in the case of making an adventurous exploration to this park, so thread these paths with care, find a bench of your choice or a patch of grass, and see if someone is nearby on Tinder or Grindr first, if you are lucky enough to have these applications still working for you.
In this drawing I tried to convey the special atmosphere in the landscape and in the air, the architecture around the park and in this old gas factory area's buildings, industrial heritage from the past; or around the hotel licated in the main building standing in the middle of the park. Airbrush is maybe the best way to describe this setting and with sfumati pastel chalk layes and impressionist techniques I have tried to visualise the mood of land, field, water and sky becoming a sort of blended space that offers new visions beyond the already known. Rhere are different dimensions visible here during some nights and these invite the viewer to take a hike and go further, walk or cycle or move in any of the directions that looks most alluring or approach the lonely stranger that acts the most seductive, even a good old trao can be persuaded, if you're lucky. The Westerpark and Westergasfabriek terrain can get somewhat spooky at night, but seeing the sun rise in the earliest hours of the morning again, and watch the park come alive again, with whatever its cast has in shore for the day, is worth a visit alone. Remember ro bring a hat, for it can get painfully cold here at nighr.
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ECLIPSE
50 X 65 cm. Pastels, conté and graphite pencil on cardboard. Unique and hand made art work by LEONISCAREFUL, signed and dated on the back in Amsterdam.
I walk the streets of Amsterdam and appear to be the centre of it all. The tourists appear to be following me and we ate linkef in sound and thought. It feels as if everybody knows me. On a recent trip to Primark I was walking Nieuwendijk and every passenger was minding their own business as well as mine. It could be their clothrs that are speaking, it could be resonance. But sometimes I long to be alone on fays like this.
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Introducing popknowsbest: Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (Official Music Video)
As long as there is a fan club, about Boy George and British pop
I decided to express the pop paradigm here, by sharing some of the songs I grew up with, in a culture and setting that for me was and always has been oriented to Great Britain and English culture in general, with BBC and Super Channel being my daily compass. (Who remembers 'On the air?' a radio programme basically broadcasted on television). The Brirish charts were a kind of religion to me and listening to the radio 1 chart show on Sunday afternoons had become a kind of ritual for me, along with watching 'Top of the pops' on Thursday nights. Always with that one goal in mind, of ever making it to London, and finally be able to indulge myself in that culrure, that for me, was something evenbigger or more accessible than American popular culture. I spend most of my youth being closeted with bisexual and gay thoughts that would remain closeted until at a lame stage in life already, but that does not destroy my own inner personal and private persona, in which I indulged into the music of the Pet Shop Boys, Boy George, George Michael, Kylie Minogue and other acts that were somehow different and alternative to my own culture. 'Nervously'was grand, just after my first single, a 7", 'Better the Devi you knowl' had caused a love for everything UK that I followed with dedication from that moment on. Karna Chameleon by the Culrure Club and Boy George expresses more than any other song maybe, how we can be one person here and the next person there, all the while trying to keep it real, and be myself. Mostly the melody remains in your head and in your heart after a first listen. In magazines like Smash Hits and Number One I followed these stars that were more often than not one hit wonders but always stayed so quintessentially British. Boy Geirge I related to, as much as Freddy Mercury and George Michael,maybe especially because, much like the Sex Pistols, they represented a culture that showed an alternative and open mind to the somewhat narrow minded views of some mwmbers of my family and in my town. An Anglo Saxon escapism, so to say, with idols that would turn out to be an inspuration and guidance in decades to follow. Boy George I finaly met or saw face to face with during a concert around '13 in Tilburg abd after reading and hearing all about his phases of Buddhism, his sex scandals and his recently developed raw vegan cure for everything, I was more than curious to finally see him in concert and hear what he had to say, sing actualy. Because I think idols and stars are so very much needed for inspiration and guidance in life. And the older the wiser. Whatever is in store for that, for our children's generation and the generations after that, having to deal with blended and temporary personalities rather than a fan club.
BALL PARK
New artwork by LEONISCAREFUL
70 x 40 cm. Pastel, graphite pencil, pastels and chalk on cardboard surface. Signed and dated 02 2023 by Leon Mussche
Becoming an athlete in a sports league can sound like the American dream, it is in fact within reach for many of us.As long as we learn to focus. And pay respect to machine learning. Being a trainer or mentor of individual players or teams can be taught by way of video games, on a phone or other device. This is where the real world is at play with the imagination and when living in the metaphysical space a celebrity sports league player can be found right around the block. You bet!
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LEONISCAREFUL first time in a group exhibition during Amsterdam Pride in Zandvoort
This coming Monday August 1, 2022 there will be an official opening where several unique hand made visuals by Amsterdam and Amsterdam GOS area artist and think tank collective will debut with thought provoking images that present an alternative reality in Zandvoort, a beach resort near Amsterdam.
In the grand scheme of things, in the race and rage against and alongside the machine, the information that reaches us has become trivial and contrived. How do we deal with matters of place and time amd circumsstancial changes of human behaviour, their appearance and surroundings and the active reactiveness of it all. Five works by Leon Mussche, medium and initiator of LEONISCAREFUL will be shown alongside work by Soek Zwamborn and other artists.
The exhibition will be held during the course of this year's Amsterdam Pride gay pride and LGBTQ events, that will culminate in the annual boat canal parade on Saturday August 5 in the centre of Amsterdam.
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ABOUT BRO'S AND HO'S
Series of 24 ballpoint sketches. Interpretations made while watching random content on the internet. Bic Ballpoint and pastels on notepad paper 11,5 x 19,5 cm. Signed by Leon, fpu de of LEONISCAREFUL
New life is here and it is here to stay. With old world sensitivities and new world logic, gay culture has become a thing of the past while straight couples and the gender-fluid trans crowd are more than ever opening up to polygamy and play with friends or admire the beauty of a dirty hunk next door. These drawings are based on random internet content. These look rather primitive and are almost uncomfortable to watch. Almost like porn. There is nothing on TV and the internet sucks. What else are you gonna do? I just don't think there should be any pressure. Jas indeed!'
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Freedom of labour
These visuals or visual interpretations are unique hand made works on paper by the 🇳🇱 Netherlands artist Leon Mussche for the LEONISCAREFUL collaborative, a project that came about as a think tank presenting a Dutch point of view in universal or global issues such as new life, cloning, automation, art, sexuality, IT and recreation brought about by digitalisation and the possibilities freedom of labour has presented us with.
Take your side, or be in a battle alone
Modern antics, post digitalisation society, has presented us with a gamification of age old and in some cases prehistoric battles among men. The battle of the sexes, the battle between races or the exotic and obscure, the distinction of the automated versus the manual labour, and the differences there are to be found in heterosexual, straight, bisexual and gay sexuality. To stride in these sides, and decide on which of them your interests fits most, one must now also make a consideration in wether or not there is an equal situation with clones, copies and other versions of new life. Because all life is 'real'in one way or another.
A mutual upbringing
LEONISCAREFUL is also concerned with new moods and morals among those youthful or matured people that make their way through life in the identity of a role or a temporary character, one we must learn to live with. By creating and listening to sketches and hypothèses, a string of new types of issues and problems that may divide or unite us as human beings or hybrid beings is something we deal with in the area of augmented reality, to provide us with a sort of practice that can prepare us for the real world and it conflicts.
New visuals made are PERPETUUM MOBILE, BIG DIMMER, ECLIPSE and PLANETARY 08 can be obtained at our website and through the app LEONISCAREFUL
Wake him up, before they go go
Being a gay man used to be a privilege, a welcomed lifestyle in an overpopulated world that was not ruled by digital systems and energy forces yet. The gay man or the LGBTQ individual was seen as a symbol of progress and personal choice in a globalised world still strickened with poverty and shortages. Now, a d3cade or so later, the gay man is in many cases leading a life of closeted loneliness again in societies that have become less welcoming to them. The gay couple was the perfect model to run in a capitalist, neo-libeal society in which luxury, brands, travwl and technological advancement used this group as the perfect target for their ideologies, that included them not making more people, a necessity in some parts of the world. Right now, social projections and accompanying morals have rurned to the growth again, the simplyest of si.ple systems in an already overpopulated world. It has somehow made tje gay man into a minority again that requires attenrion and protection. For being openly gay is not appreciated anymore and walking the streets hand in hand with your partner is not always an oprion in ciries as emancipated as Amsterdam, that usedtobe a gay capital. The gay male dating culture has been cut off from everything it used to be while many gay men lead a life of isolation with only their screens as a window to the world. Networking was their power as a comunity and a vice this community us now deprived of. Anonymous behaviour and singles meetings in bars and clubs have been limited since the outbreak of Corona and public opinion tends to be shifting towards rigjt wing family values. LEONISCAREFUL finds freedom in choice of life and openness in petsonal life choices an important universal right to qll men and women of all races, backgrounds and natinalities. So, new life happened, now what are we gonna do with it.
GLUTTONY
89 x 64 Graphite pencil blick and acryluc paint on a canvas surface mounted on a wooden frame.
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I head longest during a tango
ABOUT BRO'S AND HO'S
Series of 24 ballpoint sketches. Interpretations made while watching random content on the internet. Bic Ballpoint and pastels on notepad paper 11,5 x 19,5 cm. Signed by Leon, fpu de of LEONISCAREFUL
New life is here and it is here to stay. With old world sensitivities and new world logic, gay culture has become a thing of the past while straight couples and the gender-fluid trans crowd are more than ever opening up to polygamy and play with friends or admire the beauty of a dirty hunk next door. These drawings are based on random internet content. These look rather primitive and are almost uncomfortable to watch. Almost like porn. There is nothing on TV and the internet sucks. What else are you gonna do? I just don't think there should be any pressure. Jas indeed!'
(references incl. Pornhub and Gaymaletube)
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PLANETARY 08 and other artworks by Leon Mussche LEONISCAREFUL
50 X 60 cm. Pastels and graphite cardboard. Unique and hand made art work by LEONISCAREFUL, SIgned and dated on the back in Amsterdam.
This work came about making sketches of a multitude of people, placed and situations. I realised that this random image that is the final result of it is either influenced by the media and the things I see and experience in real life. Then, I also thought this proces probably works the other way round as well. Creating imavinary places and faces if different dimensions living inside the same slace that is defined by automation or quantum computing, in some of these areas, people in thess dimension can not even see each other, the posthumane entity can be a force or source of energy now, has changed so much in behaviour, patterns and basic human rights, living in freedom or in phone cellls, or being a shadow or swarm of micro particles. This varied not really per country per sé. It is depending on the community these people are part of, and only in part, because action and reaction, in my experience, are forever gone as a valuable source of science. There's no rhyme or reason, we must often conclude. The title of this work was inspired by the Beastie Boys song 'Intergalactic.'
PLANETARY 08
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