Leon Finley
Cartographies, 2017
scratch board
11 x 11" each part
Leon Finley is an interdisciplinary artist based in Seattle, Washington. Born in 1987 in Seattle as Sonia Finley, he spent 12 years on the East Coast before returning to the Northwest in 2016. His work crosses over performance, sculpture and drawing, and is concerned with interdependency: the relationships between all kinds of bodies (human, object, architecture, sound, etc.) and the way that things become themselves in relation to other things. These drawings are from a series of 30 works created for Kristen Kosmas’s performance The People’s Republic of Valerie, which she describes as “part boot-camp space-travel memoir, part how-to manual for the community to construct a paradise...."