autistic brain
2024 • ACRYLIC, PAPER & PLASTER • 18 in x 24 in • ALEPH COLLECTION
🧠 Learning that I am Autistic in my thirties has completely reoriented the way I understand and experience life. The aleph Collection is my first attempt at sharing the relief, grief, excitement, and insight of this process.
The myriad shapes and textures in this piece don’t tell the viewer exactly what they are supposed to see, though they suggest certain images (a flower? a brain? a wave?)... before the viewer is pulled in another direction by a different organic shape. This is the only piece to incorporate collage elements— from an old psychology textbook— to further complicate this process.
This relates to the high level of processing we Autistic folks have to do in making meaning from the overwhelming inputs of everyday life, seeing patterns and experiencing signals that allistic (non-Autistic) people may not.
2024 • ACRYLIC, PAPER & PLASTER • 18 in x 24 in • ALEPH COLLECTION
🧠 Learning that I am Autistic in my thirties has completely reoriented the way I understand and experience life. The aleph Collection is my first attempt at sharing the relief, grief, excitement, and insight of this process.
The myriad shapes and textures in this piece don’t tell the viewer exactly what they are supposed to see, though they suggest certain images (a flower? a brain? a wave?)... before the viewer is pulled in another direction by a different organic shape. This is the only piece to incorporate collage elements— from an old psychology textbook— to further complicate this process.
This relates to the high level of processing we Autistic folks have to do in making meaning from the overwhelming inputs of everyday life, seeing patterns and experiencing signals that allistic (non-Autistic) people may not.
2024 • ACRYLIC, PAPER & PLASTER • 18 in x 24 in • ALEPH COLLECTION
🧠 Learning that I am Autistic in my thirties has completely reoriented the way I understand and experience life. The aleph Collection is my first attempt at sharing the relief, grief, excitement, and insight of this process.
The myriad shapes and textures in this piece don’t tell the viewer exactly what they are supposed to see, though they suggest certain images (a flower? a brain? a wave?)... before the viewer is pulled in another direction by a different organic shape. This is the only piece to incorporate collage elements— from an old psychology textbook— to further complicate this process.
This relates to the high level of processing we Autistic folks have to do in making meaning from the overwhelming inputs of everyday life, seeing patterns and experiencing signals that allistic (non-Autistic) people may not.