Check out this amaz­ing per­son, Leon Botha who suf­fered from a rare dis­ease called “Prog­e­ria” which ages him pre­ma­turely. Most peo­ple suf­fered from this dis­ease have no more than 20 year of life expectancy.

L.E.O.N is a learn­ing ele­ment of nature. From the moment of birth, I’ve been learn­ing lessons through burn­ing test­ings, of the Head, Heart & Guts. Body, Soul & Spirit. Salt, Sul­phur & Mer­cury, in the stages of alchemy. I have been sent on a long path to take a short jour­ney & share glimpses of my expe­ri­ences & visions as a artist/channel. Though mostly known for paint­ing, I am a stu­dent of many & a mas­ter of none, striv­ing to uti­lize the ways that con­vey my expres­sions most suc­cess­fully. “Gza/The Genius” released a album in 1995 enti­tled “Liq­uid Swords”. The con­cept was, rap­pers as lyri­cal swords­men, as the tongue being sym­bolic to the sword & also that wis­dom comes in many dif­fer­ent streams & flows, like water. (The con­cept had no visual inter­pre­ta­tion.) I applied that to me & my art, also in a visual sym­bolic form that I now show in my work from time to time: The sword is the self, cut­ting through mat­ter, time & expe­ri­ence to pen­e­trate to insight, knowl­edge, wis­dom & over­stand­ing. Art is like liq­uid, it comes in infi­nite forms & flows. As artist I strive to be like water, ever chang­ing & always flow­ing: If I can’t be defined then I can­not be con­fined. The pen IS the sword! ->Leon Botha

Check out his website:

http://www.leonbotha.com/

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