It’s snowing big time here in Toronto. I’m sitting in my office at home, trying hard to write after a challenging year and many bumps and turns and major life changes in both my body and my spirit.
And yet…
There is Adam. Always here, always wonderful. I’ve worked hard to keep his routines, a sense of stability and look what he did for me, for us…look at the pride on a little boy’s face when he knows he has something to contribute to the world. Many of you in a survey I did, noted how Adam is such an inspiration and the most enjoyable posts for you were about him. I am careful about writing too much about him as he grows up now unless he gives me permission to do so, which he is quite capable of. So here, he has given me permission to share these photos — his pride, his joy, and hopefully we can pass a little on:
- Adam
ESTÉE KLAR
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Writer/Curator/Founder of The Autism Acceptance Project. Lecturer on autism & the media, and parenting. Graduate student Critical Disability Studies, York University. I like to write about our journey, musings, attitudes towards autism.
Who did the painting?
This is Adam’s painting!! Wow… I guess I wrote this post poorly since I didn’t make that clear!!! He did it …he did it!!! All by himself!! He loves the pointillst movement.
by movement I mean “action,” not the point in time in which pointillism entered into art.
I thought that might be so, in which case wow!! It’s brilliant.
Very cool! I like pointillism too. There are elements of pointillism in the wider set of impressionist works. One of my favorite things to do when at the Clark Museum in Williamstown MA (one of the best once-private collections of impressionist art in the world) is to walk up to one of their Monet Rouen Cathedrals (usually one is hanging in the skylit gallery in the old part of the building), close enough that everything is a dab of paint, then walk backwards until the details of the image start resolving.