It’s a message we can all get behind. Create your own brand of beauty, your own reality, and your own fucked-up magic. Check out Kenneth’s next performance at Metro Bar April 28. In the meantime, be sure to creep on his fantastic photography at facebook.com/KENNETHLEONBILLS.
Kenneth Leon is a multi-faceted artist best known for his imaginative visual photography and performance art. Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth brands his own art as “swag fag.” Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth was a participant in the Bad Kids pageant in 2015. “It went really well, and I had a lot of fun,” he says. Photo: ThatGuyGil
“I’m pretty comfortable right now and I’m really focusing on performance art and becoming a better performance artist,” he says. Photo: ThatGuyGil
Even though he’s the curator of an entire world of dolls, he doesn’t consider himself a character himself within The Bad Kids Collective. Photo: ThatGuyGil
“The nice thing about performing is that I can focus on where I’m at and not everything else,” he says. Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth’s love of miniatures has grown into an art form that reflects in his photography and performance art. Photo: ThatGuyGil
There’s an entire universe to Kenneth’s doll art. There are The Fantastics (the popular bitches) each with their own unique names, personalities and styles all created by Kenneth. Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth scalps his dolls just to create new fantastic hairstyles, paints their faces with skill and precision, hand sews their very own outfits and constructs worlds in which they exist in pure plastic harmony. Photo: ThatGuyGil
“I don’t really care about her, but I love how it’s a little person,” he says. “I liked the idea but I wanted my own spin on it.” Photo: ThatGuyGil
“I think people need to embrace that within themselves more, because you’re gonna wake up one day and be old and you’re gonna look back and be like ‘God, I was gorgeous.’” Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth’s look is pretty strictly masculine. Photo: ThatGuyGil
He loves beards and big eyebrows (and he beautifully sports both himself) and prefers boy looks to female-impersonation or drag. Photo: ThatGuyGil
“I identify more with masculinity,” he says. Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth is a combination of filth and beauty, dripping with sex and plastic parts. Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth loves puppy play and confesses that he’s “come to the conclusion that every form of sex is a form of role play unless you’re really making love,” he says. Photo: ThatGuyGil
“I’m more inspired by men’s looks than women’s. I like to do feminine things with my dolls.” Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth Leon. Photo: ThatGuyGil
“You’ve gotta just say fuck it to your insecurities and just be free.“ Photo: ThatGuyGil
Kenneth draws you in with his intense looks; He’s the Ken. Photo: ThatGuyGil
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