Jonathan Leopold is a Windsor based artist whose practice focuses on the impact that humans have on themselves and their environment. Using photography and digital art, he transforms our ugliness into beautiful abstractions.
In this series, discarded packaging becomes an archive of personal consumption, transforming refuse into an ordered composition that resists its own disposability. The materials are evidence of what sustains daily life: food, household goods, conveniences purchased between work hours and family obligations. They are the physical residue of a schedule too packed to notice what accumulates in its wake.
In an era when the pace of life overwhelms our capacity for reflection, these works ask us to see our own lives mirrored in the aesthetic of our waste. By reframing what is thrown away, the work challenges the boundary between the valuable and the valueless. These compositions are not about waste, they are about time, attention, and what remains of us when utility fades; they are about our future.
