Edvard Munch painted a picture that became an icon. It is entitled The Scream. Today’s watercolor experiment: The Scream has adopted by popular culture. I humbly submit the icon below to include the animal kingdom. There is plenty to shriek about in this world by both man and animals.
Well, it happened. I lost the war with my blank slate today. I had some ideas, but I couldn’t get them on paper to my satisfaction. My train of thought had been in the direction of trying to visually depict mental states. I didn’t seem to have problems with sleep, dreaming or thought (see my Sleep, Day […]
Sensual eating How should I put this? Mike was always a sensual eater. Why use utensils when you can feel the texture in your hands? I suppose it adds to the complete culinary experience… assuming you have someone to clean up after you. Brief recap For those of you reading my blog for the first […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday I noted that many of my early pictures of my brother Michael happened to feature images of hands as visual elements. Mike is nonverbal, autistic and profoundly retarded. He does not speak, nor does he use gestures to communicate. Mike’s hands are visual elements because of the delicate awkwardness with which he holds them. […]
How does one make a decision to go to the hospital emergency room when one has an acute change in mental status? This is actually a two-part question, or actually a question for two different classes of individuals; for the person with the change in mental status and for the friend or family who notices […]
