Prepare to enter the wild and wooly world of an adult with Aspergers Syndrome, a form of autism characterized by intellignce, quirks, social difficulties and downright strange and oddish behaviours.

People with Aspergers generally are high functioning in everyday life but have great difficulty connecting with others due to the inability to read faces, body language and subtle verbal clues. They also tend to take words literally and have a hard time multi-tasking.

Oversensitivity to touch (clothing has to be soft and often the tags removed), light (do not leave home without the sunglasses), sound (loud noises and noisey places are avoided), taste (many Aspies have quite a limited diet and are frequently very picky eaters) and smells makes the everyday existence more of a challenge.

Fasten your seatbelts and come on in...
To find out more about what Aspergers is..please check out my earliest blog entries

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

On The Day She Left

12" x 24"
Acrylic on Wood
Often times I ask myself, how am I feeling? As I struggle to put words to emotions. Instead of words, I see an image.
This painting is born from that question. I censored myself for days, refusing to create an image in which a gun is present. I abhor guns in all their forms and for public and private reasons.
The image refused to recede. It bothered me until I brought it to life.
I love how this painting turned out. It's a powerful image for me. It says more than i ever could with words.