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 […]
An icon for frustration How does one develop an icon for frustration? I took the picture below years ago, at the moment my younger brother expressed extreme frustration with our older brother. Mike is very low functioning, autistic and nonverbal. It is not obvious if he even recognizes his own family. A silhouette of my […]
Recent watercolors My watercolors have recently been about the distance between my autistic brother and me. Mike is profoundly retarded, autistic and has never spoken. In addition to the physical distance between us (I’m on the Wes Coast, he’s on the East Coast), there is a communication gap that I have never been able to […]
