this is why i pick up trash and try to create beauty

Self portrait 2012 ~ Leslie Cooper

at Clearview Womens Treatment Center~

Art Therapy with Marlene Frantz (thank you!)

i fought calling myself an artist...

i fight to CALL myself an artist.

but, the idea is still a joke (to me) and

it starts the bile a churnin'.

when i am working.... i can forget. 

so.... i work ~ all the time.

and~ 

The Broken ~ LiVES /lIVZ/

i am proof.

*art and accessories made from litter... trash i collect off the streets where i live. 

*10% of every sale will be donated to Foundation 45.  https://www.facebook.com/foundation45help/

#suicide #prevention

#mentalHealth

Online sales to begin soon! 

❤️les

~your favorite oxymoron