A personal exploration of autism from a brother’s perspective, including family relationships, philosophy, neuroscience, mental health history and ethics
This is a tree across the street from my house in 2021. It was so tall, luxurious, even. I am so sad to say that it, along with the houses on the lot, are gone. It was almost painful watching it get cut down. Instead of looking a gorgeous tree, we now look at an ugly vacant lot. I wonder what kind of monstrosity will replace it.
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Graffiti was different back in the 1990s: more textual than graphic. When I lived in Brooklyn I did a lot of walking in my spare time. This walk took me by MacDonald Avenue, Avenue U and other scenic locations. this is a graffitied wall that I came across.
I printed shortly after I took the shot on gelatin silver paper in my darkroom and matted it recently, to fit an 11×14 frame. It is at my Etsy shop: OtherArtbyJack.
This is from an old 35mm slide I took during a drive down Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains on a trip back east, around 1989. Or, I may have scanned this slide into my computer in 1989 from a childhood vacation I took with my family in the 1960s or 70s. I like this tree behind the rock wall. The hills are in the background.
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I started this series with the idea that I had a visual library full of different hand images. When I think of hand gestures the first image that comes to mind is my father’s outstretched hands, conducting an imaginary orchestra. This captures the essence of my dad. The next group of hands is beyond the 1990s time period. They belong to my mom, brother Mike and me during our last visit. The rest of the sketches are my brother Mike’s hands. He had a number of interesting idiosyncratic gestures.
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I had video calls with my brother Mike during his hospital stays toward the end of his life. Since Mike was nonverbal, my virtual visits consisted of me talking to him and watching to see if he reacted at all to what I was saying. The image of Mike’s hand was taken from a frame of one of those videos.
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