I used the shape I discovered yesterday to construct today’s composition. This squashed kidney bean became my older brother‘s* head in his particular plane of reality in that study.

I expanded on my Miró-inspired shape by superimposing and rotating that shape to form the basis of another head. I included Mike’s hands, which he uses in stereotypical behavior.

Instead of looking at my brother and me as separate, I combined us into one double portrait. This portrayal acknowledges that I am more closely related to my brother than to either of my parents.  His strangeness is not that far removed from my own DNA.

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*Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal