Tag: Autistic Artist

  • Getting To Know Philly

    It is a lot of walking

    The city of Philadelphia has a lot to offer and, coming from a train ride away from northern Delaware, it is a city that I would visit for Phillies games and museum trips. But now, in three and a half months, I will be moving to go to Temple to hopefully get my degree in visual studies at Tyler.

    With being on the autism spectrum, it is important I prepare and get used to how things work. So it is not a shock to my system like my first try. With not being able to drive. (Thank God!) Learning how SEPTA works is pretty important, but it was not too hard.

    Really, I chose to go to Temple and Philly in general because of the local art and DIY scene.

    More of what I want to do is in Philadelphia.

    The walks have been lovely. Been taking in the different architecture. I have just been exploring and drawing in the parks.

    Just getting use to the city.

  • My Brain And Art

    my autistic brain having a special interest in art

    I would say modern to contemporary art is a special interest of mine. It has affected my life choices. For instance, the path I chose for my college education. There are going to be visual studies at Temple this fall.

    How has it affected me consuming art?

    I get totally obsessed. I mean I made this blog to talk about it. Not only do I have to know the history, but also how it was made, and I try to recreate it by learning the techniques in my own art. It keeps me up at night. I can spend hours just sucking in a piece trying to analyze the tiniest sections. It is my life. Like I love learning about non-representational art. I am a very design-oriented person, and I can really spend hours researching a piece.

    Some things I can go on about are the impressionist being inspired by Spanish painters for their looser style. I can go on and on about Marcel Duchamp and dadaism. Currently, they are hyper fixated on dadaism right now, for instance. Talk about the history of college art. There is a lot.

    I cannot be normal when I see an artist’s piece I have been studying, because I get really excited about it. I will talk my mouth off if I get the chance to talk about a movement I have been studying. It can get exhausting because of how much it consumes me. That is why I say it is a special interest, because of how much it affects my life. At least it gives me a ton of inspiration.

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  • Sensory Input and Collage Art

     am never satisfied with a digital piece of. It never feels finished and I never feel accomplished. I do not find it that fun.

    I need to feel the art supplies. I need that sense of “oh shit I fucked up” to then layer about stuff to fix it. The smell of the paint and ink. Watching the ink flow all around the paper. Just feeling the material in my hand and making something gives me considerable pride. I sensory seek with my art.

    That is why I love college, because I can do weird shit. Add some weird textured paper or using some cardboard I found lying around. Mixing mediums to make something dope. It is freeing. I can get sensory satisfaction. Art is a sensory experience for me, and I cannot get that with digital art. For example, throwing down a matte medium and pressing paper into each other. The medium dry in my hand and peel it off. Just another thing apart from the experience. Making my collage art is about the experience of letting out a feeling.

    I crave the tactile nature of traditional art.

    Messing with materials is a big stress relief and I wish I could get that feeling by working in Clip Studio or Photoshop. It just does not fill the void why I make art. 

    I either make an abstract piece or I go representational. It is what is best for capturing what is going on inside my head and I need different textures to make my point.