Tourettic?
Mike is my older brother who is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Mike had several self injurious behaviors over the years. See post Complex Motor Tick for more information about what might have been behind Mike’s action below.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Portrait ala Kandinsky
Today’s watercolor experiment: I am trying to wean myself away from portraits of my brother Mike. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Although I haven’t seen him is a couple of years, and sporadically before that, he is still in my head. One way to remove oneself is to abstract. One of my favorite abstract […]
Injured Mike
I took these photos at the same time as the ones in my post, Everybody Loves Michael, February 27, 2013. Mike is my older brother who is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal.
Brother Mask
Today’s watercolor experiment: I have been gradually abstracting more and more from an original grainy photograph of my older brother Mike (see Mike Crying). Mike is very low functioning, autistic and nonverbal. I have never been able to contact him in any meaningful way. If there is a connection it is on a subliminal or unconscious […]
Klee and Jawlensky-Influenced Portrait
Today’s watercolor experiment: I looked at a lot of Jawlensky‘s portraits today and did a lot of drawings trying to distill the photograph seen in the Mike Crying post. I took the advice of Paul Klee and ‘took my pencil point for a walk’ to define Mike’s* features in as simple a way as possible. One of the paintings I wanted […]
Photos of Mike and Dad
The photographs below have not been posted before in my blog. I was looking though my photo archives and found some photographs that show more about the relationship between my brother Mike and our father. Mike is older than me, autistic, low functioning and non verbal. When I took these photos, Mike was living in […]
Review #4 Photos of Mike
Dad was like Cool Hand Luke, he never gave up no matter what the feedback was from Mike. Mike is my older brother, autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Originally posted on February 24, 2013, Those Moments: This moment was a real treat for me, not such a terrific photo, but a great moment: Originally posted on […]
Stylized Portraits
Today’s watercolor experiment: With the artwork of Alexej Jawlensky still on my mind, I tried to create portraits of my brother Mike* in as simple a way as possible. It takes a lot of work to be simple! I revisited yesterday’s portrait (Mike Crying) with the idea of finding a way to create the same feeling […]
Mike Crying
Today’s watercolor experiment: I continue to be inspired by the portraits of Alexej Jawlensky. I love his simplification of the shapes of the heads he portrays and the color patches that he applied to emphasize features of his subjects. Today I painted a rendition of a photograph I took of my brother Mike at his […]
Review #3 Photos of Mike
I would often meet my parents at Mike’s group home when we used to visit. Below are some pictures that show their interactions with Mike*. From June 24, 2013 (Private Moment): The first photo depicts the isolation that was the rule rather than the exception. Mom was very sensitive about this, and thought it was […]
