

And to combat the utter boredom and depression New York winters bring, he created a blog of superweird illustrations based on this guy he calls “Wesley Snipes, the Artist.” Yes, like the actor. No, he doesn’t seem to connect the real Snipes with his fictional character. Snipes' style loosely resembles southern outsider artists like R.A. Miller, Willie Jinks, Tubby Brown, and Royal Robertson. Christian said Wesley is his “mentally challenged, delusional alter ego.” Once you start scrolling through misspelled text and frenzied drawings the description seems fitting. Picture a smiley James Brown in gold Africa pendant, hamburger perched an inch above his head, and text below reading, “jaems brown gave many gifs to litel childrin.” That's the work of The Artist.



