Framed by an archway, this landscape depicts a blue sky, green grass, and a long, narrow, winding road or wall. While the sky and grass contain many dark grey circles, the architectural elements contain yellow circles, and the entire composition is surrounded by pink and brown up to the edge of the paper.

The artist’s longstanding practice has undergone numerous evolutions, including the mysterious addition of black, circular shapes that perforate his surfaces. These circles had initially formed along walls of LeVell’s architectural drawings, resembling windows. But this enigmatic visual motif later came to dominate entire compositions, pushing them toward total abstraction.

Michael LeVell’s art offers an intuitive spatial awareness that gives the viewer a glimpse into an abstract articulation of the world around us. LeVell has been prolifically generating works via his distinct visual vernacular at Tierra del Sol, a foundation that champions the inclusion and independence of all people with disabilities, for more than 30 years. While legally considered blind, LeVell uses imagery from Architectural Digest magazine to inform his velvety, tactile drawings of landscapes and architectural structures in layers of saturated colored pencil or acrylic paint.