I’ve been delving into the past again, looking at pictures of my older brother I took years ago. I originally took them to examine my relationship with him. Mike is very low functioning – what used to be called profoundly retarded, now called intellectually disabled; autistic and nonverbal. Until a couple of months ago, I […]
The past number of posts have concentrated on portraying emotions associated with frustration and pain. I used photographs that I took of my older brother from the years spent trying to get to know him. Mike is very low functioning, autistic and nonverbal. I was never successful in communicating with him. Perhaps it was on […]
I used the photograph below in a previous post. It pictures my older brother getting ready to slam his arm against his chest. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. The doctors were not sure if this type of self harming activity was voluntary or not. If it was involuntary, like a sneeze, I suspect the […]
Extraction from photograph I found a photograph of my brother Mike walking in a park with Dad during one of our visits to his group home. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. He has some idiosyncratic self-harming behaviors, including head slapping, hand biting and slamming his arm against the side of his chest. He […]
I started my search through photographs I had taken of my older brother to look for emotional content that I could try to capture in my painting. My older brother is autistic, low functioning and is nonverbal. Every now and then, my whole family, younger brother D, my parents and I, used to visit Mike […]
Icky feelings I might be getting a cold. I felt crummy during the night and had some bad dreams. I don’t remember them exactly, just the not-so-good feelings that remain when the substance of a dream is gone. However, my mood may be related to the painting I posted yesterday. I painted it at the […]
Watercolor not displayed I painted a watercolor several days ago and even uploaded it to my media files. I told myself that it was not related to the post I was working on, so I did not show it. I was working on hand gestures as icons. The photograph I was working from for that […]
I took the photo below at Mike’s group home. Along with my usual camera equipment, I brought a tripod and a cable release. I tried to get Mike involved in taking his own picture. However, immediate feedback in the form of a picture for him to see was not possible back then. All I had […]
