Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration gardener and journalist

gardener and journalist

Some writers hope that by returning these stolen rocks

and the curious neighborhood cats that cross his path

Looney Tunes and the Youtube fossil Tha Cliff from 2006

Textiles that crossed the world long before today’s globalisation can also tell tales of the multiple forms and consequences of colonialist policies

Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration gardener and journalistIts no mistake that Lenard Smiths new book borrows its title from Susan Sontags 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects the Los Angeles based artists first publication for Perimeter Editions grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the