Leaf Check

26"h x 32"w framed

acrylic and pen on mixed media panel

2025

signed en verso

Please note: Artwork will be on display through April 27, 2025 and will be shipped to collectors within two weeks following the closing of the exhibition.

"Leaf Check was a game brought across Palisade Ave, during the short-lived summer/fall seasons of 1992-1993. The premise of the game was that if you were out on the street, you always had to have a leaf in pristine condition on you. You would roam the street to find the perfect leaf littered among the gutter trash and carefully keep it in your pocket, or better yet laminated in plastic. It was essentially your pass to be on the street. If you didn’t have a leaf on you or the leaf was crinkled, you got beat up, feeling much like it was you against everyone else, in an anxiety riddled world. The reality of the game was that it just gave Union City kids an excuse to scrap with Weehawken kids, and once adopted by Weehawken, it gave an excuse for older kids to pick on younger kids." -Sean 9 Lugo