The escalators to 181st 

Coloured pencils and oil pastels

26x34

$950

Len Cicio

My background in textile design, helps me see patterns and textures, in the landscapes and architectural subjects I draw.  Living over 20 years at Inwood Park, I found a rich primal and supernatural quality in its landscapes, which I've explored with mixed mediums of colored pencils and oil pastels, and lately watercolors. 

In the theme of “rising” you have a physical and an emotional internalization of the concept. In my drawing of the 181St Escalators, you have a physical lifting up from the subway world in geometrical design below in a staircase, to the life of Washington Heights above, with people, restaurants and all the activities of life happening.  The “rise” takes you to then view the GW Bridge, where architecture, water and sky meet.  An explosive sunset that takes your eyes and imagination to a higher, more opened and lighter filled world, from the subway architectural designs of minimalism

Fort Tryon Park is nature blooming in spring, with new colors and changes happening around you. The life of trees, plants and flowers in bloom  New life coming in and rising from the cold winter. The softness, strength and growth life rising from the ground and filling the senses. .

My goal is to make an analytical study, showing a deeper, more supernatural vision of God’s handiwork, behind our natural world, and in the design patterns of architecture.