This artist sued to remove homeless people. They also have been his friends and inspiration

Artist Joel Coplin has spent the better part of three years painting what he sees through the window of his studio:

A woman showering with a hose beside barbed wire; a body lying still at an intersection under a streetlight.

Then there's an unfinished piece he calls "The Land of Nod," an homage to the men and women who seem to defy gravity as they come down from the effects of opioids.

It's part of a complicated relationship Coplin has with , a mix of compassion and frustration.