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Read More Art and free signed bookMy mother used to say “She’s not a gusher…” to describe me when I opened a gift and was not raving outwardly about it. Then she’d laugh nervously as she always did when she was describing me. Of course I didn’t have a name for me then, (flat affect, autism, dysthymia) there’s many names I’d […]
Read More Covid PasttimesLast year’s contest for Women’s History Month in March, was a heartwarming enterprise. We’re doing it again this year, but having prizes for every age group, including adults. Please share this to friends. And it’s never too soon to send me submissions (every submission will be published on Art of Autism’s FB page). Send to […]
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Masking is a process in which an individual changes or “masks” their natural personality to conform to social pressures, abuse, and/or harassment. -wiki I enjoy making memes, they’re something I can do creatively that takes little time. I made the one above and these recently: I didn’t note the misspelling of “autistic” until yesterday and […]
Read More My Family, My Updates, and ArtI read a book about a Buddhist monk…
Read More FluidityI had the great opportunity to represent Art of Autism with my art at this event in Dobbs Ferry NY on May 30. Some proceeds will go to AoA -any purchases from any artist in the show (commissioned or sold) made up to 30 days after the show. Artists present: I caught many Sleeping Snorlax’s […]
Read More Collection MMXIX Dobbs FerryMy latest blog is here: https://the-art-of-autism.com/the-resonance-of-books-and-kindness/ Please ignore the typos! Kim
Read More Lexie and the rabbitFaeries, babies, goddesses, oh my!
Read More Faeries, Babies, Goddesses, Oh My!Here is the link to this blog https://the-art-of-autism.com/manifesting-our-reality-through-wish-boards/
Read More Manifesting reality through wish boardsHe ‘encouraged’ her by remarking , “This is so good you would not know it was by a woman.”
Read More Things I Learned From Books Over The Summer (incl. 40s sexism)I shared these 1st two stories on my Facebook author page but I’m going to share ’em here for those who haven’t liked that page and read those stories. Walking The Dog I was traveling home from the Boston Post Road last week when I saw a young girl of 7 or 8 y/o walking […]
Read More Balancing Funny with Not-So-Funny (mourning a tree like the over sensitive person I am)Hello all. I’ve had a productive month of ups and downs, just getting over shingles actually. I’m feeling better. I hope to post actual WRITING here soon, instead of updates. But I wanted to mention the podcast interview that aired today. Link follows this post. I’ve been doing a lot of software work, digital art, […]
Read More My Podcast Episode 37 at Different Brains Spectrumly SpeakingI have been wanting to put my artwork (well, most of it, ) in one place, for a very long time, so today I made a powerpoint. Some of these artworks are old, some new, some in-progress, some sold, some for sale. It amazes me how much time I’ve put into it all, and trust me […]
Read More Kimberly Gerry Tucker ARTWORK slideshowHere is my combination Intro blog to Art of Autism and description of my proposed project. Please feel free to submit. PODS
Read More PODS project seeking submissionsThis blog post is interspersed with some of my newest paintings (no digital one’s here, these are paint) that I have been working on over the last few months. Some are collage as well. In some cases, I’m posting here just portions of the canvas as these paintings are in unfinished states. I’ve also been […]
Read More I’ve Never Written About My MeToos (and I’m not doing that here)So I’m doing this: My glasses are taped to the sugar canister in an attempt to stretch them. I’ve been doing steady at-home close work and so I’ve been wearing them more than usual… I ended up with a swollen and very sore scalp, which is painful even to rest on a pillow. My elbows […]
Read More In Progress, An Unfinished ChurchThere is a phenomenon in nature known as ‘crown shyness.’ Some trees have gaps in the canopy. Those reluctances to touch are intentional. When I think of trees, -when I depict them in paint or ink or graphite, I am most apt to ensure they intertwine, ‘holding hands in the sky’ (so to speak) much […]
Read More Hangry For Peaceful MomentsMy autodidactic passion for learning is perpetual. And Einstein is right. Question everything. There’s a reason for curiosity. It leads to lots of things. On that note, why would someone make curious art like this? Because they can. Because it’s cool. Art. Here is a story about a mural I painted years ago. The woman […]
Read More On Curiosity“My ideal teaching planet would have 8 to 10 rabid, maniacal, fanatic art majors… hungry for the zeal of artistic exploration (!) inspired by the mere hint or crick of the eye wrinkle of one my aging octogenarian professors (…yes Emeritus). When I was an art student, I immersed………
Read More Finally reading 5 people you meet in heavenI will never become accustomed to, I will never accept, nor will I become desensitized to or jaded by this culture of self absorption and violence, racism, and cruelty. Doing nothing means nothing changes.
Read More An Environment Conversation and Awareness Through ArtI just looked at an ampersand ( @ ), which I usually do without thinking, a lot, because they are part of so many online addresses, and in doing so today I saw its shape for how it presents visually: […]
Read More Basket of Possibilities, Faery villages and goat eyesI had a bad few months so here’s the positive bits. A seed packet arrived from friend Clay. And the seeds are working. Al was stung by a bee so …😍 Yes- fun was had. See the colored specks? This guy. The aforementioned fun. My grandson’s hand. Look at my colorful lifeline! Part of my […]
Read More Choosing to Recognize good bits, A visualI used to be adept at “Find the hidden______” puzzles. In doctors’ offices when I was a kid-I went right to the Highlights For Children magazines to find the hidden toothbrush, pencil, banana, etc. I’ve played a few phone apps too along these lines. So. With all my ‘experience’ finding hidden items, one would think I […]
Read More Unquiet Brain“If one wants something to be preserved for the ages, the clear choice is to use rock; which very slowly decomposes over time.” I was considering this statement (which I heard on TV) and thinking about monoliths, (think Easter Island), Stonehenge, the pyramids… and on a smaller scale: graveyard markers (headstones). As any parent will […]
Read More Unless (Being a Lorax in a Power Driven Society)I am happy to say, that I learned more from the students at the collage workshop I ‘instructed’ last month than they probably learned from me. Here are some favorite photos from that day: This is the art table, my view from my seat, a long and lovingly nicked solid surface for our purposes. And […]
Read More When your singing bowl won’t sing for youThis particular blog is going to be full of images, I hope you enjoy. Here’s a pictorial log of what I’ve been up to. I find my little art room quite empty now that- “My paintings have left the building!” They’re in Lee Massachusetts #GoodPurposeGallery till Mar. 27, 2017. So, I’m busy trolling Pinterest for […]
Read More Faeries, Busy-ness, Crafty Stuff or What I’ve Been Up ToIn Bulgaria, the idiom “Friendship is friendship, but cheese costs money,” is one I came across and puzzled over for a meaning. From what I have come to understand it means not to take advantage of a friend’s generosity. Even if a person prefers isolation as their natural state of being, the symbiotic nature of […]
Read More kudos Keri Bowers, Art of AutismThe man came to the edge of a cliff, and the tiger was almost upon him. Having no choice, he held on to a vine with both hands and climbed down.
Read More I Learned This from GelseyMy interest lies in part with fascination for hidden worlds, and mysterious and different creatures.) New octopus related things having been purchased, walls painted, I decided to put up some mini blinds in the newly painted bathroom. There is a narrow working space what with the disability rail and toilet. I rested my foot on the toilet seat. It skidded and snapped off.
Read More Striking a Balance Between Despair and HopeIt’s the startlingly lifelike mannequin that has been standing at the shop’s window for the past 85 years. According to local legends, the mannequin is in fact the preserved, mummified corpse……
Read More Mannequin and Doll MusingDeserted houses, forgotten outbuildings, abandoned vehicles, long vacant parking lots, and sunken ships. They’ve all got something in common. Nature gobbles them up. Underground roots (rhizomes) undermine the integrity of foundations. Ivy creeps stealthily into cracks. Temperature extremes, dampness, insects and various wild animals- all play a role in reclaiming structures. In the sea, artificial reefs […]
Read More Back Off Pigweed OR: Just Enough On The PlateAbove: This is an example of a 25 hundred dollar mirror with superb “psyche” tilt. That’s an actual term. Below: a French Budoir mirror (Etsy). And Below: WalMart mirror. Functional simplicity. There are some grand sounding words associated with mirrors. For instance: gadrooning (leaves, flowers, birds, etc. carved on the frame), psyche (the mechanism that […]
Read More Having A Walmart BrainMy grandson likes to think he resembles Brick Heck (Atticis Finch) in mannerisms and looks. He does. Kinda. I identified with the recent episode of The Middle (as defined by Wiki: an American sitcom about a working-class family living in Indiana and facing the day-to-day struggles of home life, work, and raising children.) Sue, while […]
Read More Feed Sacks are Cool and other UpdatesSomewhere on the planet as I type this; gurgling, burbling geothermic hotspots spurt predictably (like certain presidential candidates) and just like Old Faithful, Pixar presents us with another animated film. Inside Out is about feelings; so I was putting this one off. Eventually I did give it a watch. Turns out it’s literal, it runs […]
Read More BETWEEN THE GREYSSome things that make me smile in no particular order: Planning and partaking in art projects. Generating a love for the arts and for reading. Learning new things. Reading an engaging book. Receiving feedback about my book. I received a book of cows doing yoga for Christmas from my middle son and I was dreading […]
Read More Some things to smile about (or…having a rich varied thought life:)When I was 12 a friend plucked a white hair from my head and showed me it; holding it up to the light. I laughed and laughed. This was an unexpected quirk in my day. Eclectic. Funny. When I was in my twenties I saw colonies of white hairs. This time I had a different […]
Read More Seeing All The SidesI saw this prettily mosaiced seal at the aquarium yesterday. I wish in retrospect I had noted the artist. These other two pictures (shoes and a bathtub) were on display as part of an authentic Titanic display. These items were found in the wreck site. How weird to touch these artifacts. I’m not sure why […]
Read More Washed Ashore Refuse, Art in Unusual WaysI forgot I had some of these drawings/sketches/pastels/paintings. I felt they were “unfinished” and just off in some way. But a few show promise. WEIRD BANANA MOON
Read More Random Art From My Closet I considered Tossing OutThere I was, with my naturally curly hair all jumped up and soaking went and I had to leave the house. . . I turned to my 8 year old grandson and said, jokingly, “You should pick up that………
Read More FOUR A’s: Appreciated Allies, Art, and AdaptationsInternational Autistic Pride Day: June 18th. I missed this celebrated awareness day last year. On any given day something is celebrated to “raise awareness.” June 18th is: NATIONAL DUMP THE PUMP DAY On the third Thursday in June, National Dump the Pump encourages people to ride public transportation, instead of driving, and save money. NATIONAL […]
Read More International Autistic Pride Day: June 18th. Splurge, fish and take public transportation too…I was a bit under the weather today, aches, pains, etc. Had a test at the hospital this morning. I had an MRI, and I never have trouble in those things. But this morning was different. I felt so claustrophobic! I kept thinking of that old Vincent Price movie where someone’s buried alive and tries […]
Read More From Singing Bananas to VestsA poem by James Richardson— ESSAY ON WOOD At dawn when rowboats drum the dock and every door in the breathing house bumps softly as if someone were leaving quietly, I wonder if something in us is made of wood, maybe not quite the heart, knocking softly, or maybe not made of it, but […]
Read More On Roadside Ruminationssalus in ardunis sancte et sapienter Alice In Wonderland Syndrome…(or as it’s also called: Todd’s Syndrome or Lillipution Hallucinations) sounds made-up but it’s a very real condition. People seem fine optically, but they have weird visual perceptions. They have what’s termed a “rare form of migraine” (migrainous ischemia?). All of their senses are strangely distorted. The […]
Read More Interpretting White RosesI don’t understand it. Am I taking the weight of the woeful world’s troubles on and internalizing it? Lately I’ve had trouble seeing the positive side of things. I won’t mention the bullying, cruelty and atrocious acts I’m referring to here, but you have access to media; you know what I mean. Even if I […]
Read More Between hell and hopelessness: Works In ProgressIf it weren’t for the moon, to slow Earth’s spin, we’d have 6 hour days instead of 24. If Teddy Roosevelt hadn’t been carrying his speech in a metal eyeglasses container that October night in 1912 when John Schrank shot him, the bullet would’ve killed him. If Al Capone hadn’t compulsively carried his trademark mirror […]
Read More IFHave you heard about the tiny skeletons appearing on the streets of Mexico? Urban artist Isaac Cordal can tell you about them. He created them. The following quote is from his website, which has a link following this blog: “These small sculptures contemplate the demolition and reconstruction of everything around us. They catch the attention […]
Read More Is It Profound or Is It Poop?My grandson said recently: “Grandma enjoys stress. It gives her something to do.” This is my bathroom shower curtain. The curtain was purchased at Walmart.As you can see, it’s an oceanic world, an underwater scene of fish and coral. Every week I buy stickers and when my grandson sleeps over, he puts them into the scene. […]
Read More Thou Art InspiringWhere can you find the remains of a giraffe, an upright dining table, a claw hand and silver bars worth millions (all in the same place)? Underwater, in NYC, that’s where. Weird finds in New York’s waterways are the inspiration for fictional stories on a “digital journal” called Underwater New York. But I’m more interested […]
Read More Emotions With No NameObscure: the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant. I forgot the library’s closed on Mondays and it was there on my shelf so I picked up my memoir. For some obscure reason, (imagine ME obscure? Right, I know) I decided to reread my book “Under the Banana Moon.” Well actually it can be […]
Read More A more interesting word without “U”I need to get something out of my system: “Fizzling Fireboxes!” “Well… Flatten my funnel!” “Oh! Trembly tracks!” There, that’s better. I’ve been watching CPTV’s Thomas The Tank Engine with a 2 year old. Thomas gets into mischief on that program. He’s called the “cheeky” engine for a reason. He’s also an example for […]
Read More Sharp Little Pencil Addresses My Faux Pas and Makes Me SmileI’m into obscure things. If you’ve read this blog you already know that. This forum, for me, is kind of an information purge of sorts. It’s like a safe place where I can say things like moon pigeons and alphabet juice and electric ketchup. Oddball conundrums keep my brain cells happy. Let me explain the […]
Read More Rantings of a logophileThe essence of living things are cascades of fractals. Related patterns recur enthusiastically at progressively smaller scales… seemingly random but decidely chaotic. Deoxyribonucleic acid, (DNA) with its double helix entwined like a ladder. Cells. Fractals are seen with the “naked” eye, as in this beehive: And they are unseen (as in this close-up view of […]
Read More Life is a Fractal; RIP Maya“They were expecting it to be nothing but unicorns shitting rainbows…” Ever browse Humans Of New York (HONY)? Think this: a photographer named Brandon who admits to, at some point being obsessed with things like aquariums, piano, baritone, New York City, etc. His current passion brings us pictures of New Yorkers, taken in a purposely […]
Read More Passions Pursued, HONY, Pandora and UnicornsI ‘met’ someone recently who used to work in retail and I did my share of that too so I was reminiscing about my years ‘working with the public.’ I told him that I did my best. That’s all anyone can do. I found lots of expired merchandise in my “Health […]
Read More Work ethic, Dr. Suess and if I was a Treethe infamous puzzle piece? Yeah I know, it’s very cliche Here’s what I’ve been up to: (Keep in mind there are several links on this blog. Don’t forget to come back and read the rest…Or click them when you finish reading…) http://barkingsycamores.wordpress.com/current-issue/ The above link is from a “neurodivergent” sister site on wordpress who […]
Read More it’s that month again, here’s what I’ve been up to, in partJJ has this theory that memory is still there; like in a computer; in the recesses of your brain. Like you never really forget things; not even in regard to Alzheimers. He feels that you never really delete anything from your hard drive per se. As in with […]
Read More J. Moore’s Book, Memory, and Tattooed PigsI think of ravens and crows interchangeably. I can’t help it; I just do. Ravens are bigger in size although there are other differences too; like their voices. Supposedly the crow can say ‘uh-huh’, ‘caw’, ‘eh-aw’, ‘kow’, ‘aww’, and sound real nasal, whereas the raven is harsher and says things like ‘kraa’, or it makes […]
Read More Some of Crows’ and Ravens’ Roles in Fairy Tales and myth and LiteraturePlease don’t be put off by the length of this. I’m not sure how long it will roll on; but I’ve lost a dear friend so here goes. It was October of 2007 when I first met Zsolt Megai. My husband had died in 2005 and The Ct […]
Read More Loss of A Dear Friend, Zsolt MegaiDonna Williams says (in a brilliant analogy) that autism is a fruit salad, which I infer to mean, that everyone’s fruit bowl looks a bit different. Mine has Aspergers bananas in it, with selective mutism lemons, sensory processing dysfunction prickly pears, and dysthymic mangos. There are other fruits in there too. Like anxious horned melon […]
Read More weather patterns, Donna Williams, fruit salad, BuddhaEINSTEIN: The lake was as smooth as a sheet of glass. Not a breeze stirred. Who would take their sailboat out with nary a breeze to stir a nostril hair? Einstein. He said, “I like the challenge.” I would suppose that’s how new solutions unveil themselves to attentive minds. An attentive mind he surely had. […]
Read More 10 Genius Minds With Surprising Habits and PasttimesStephen King once wrote a short story about the heyday of youth with all it’s freshness and trials. He called youth: Pony days. We all have a brief time as ponies. There were two times during my pony years that I was given horses and both times my father said no, absolutely not, she can […]
Read More Here Be Dragons…When Pipes Are Not Pipes(above-my version of a Van Gogh) (above-my version of a Monet)
Read More SOME OF MY PAINTINGS, here ART thouMy grandmother died when I was about 13 years old. It’s the last thing I expected even though she was nearly 90. (Or was she in her 90s? Memory fades that detail…) To a child, death only happens to other people; not to people you know. It was a special relationship. I was mute most […]
Read More Acts Of Kindness and the HEARTImagine writing and illustrating a book so bizarre (but intriguing) that decades later people are still drawn to it and NO ONE has been able to decode the secret language you made up, nor are they able to understand what your mind boggling illustrations mean?! Hey that’s a feat, eh? Look at one of the […]
Read More Comparing Luigi to the Voynich find, a look at two of the weirdest outsider art books ever!Recently I’ve been reflecting about architecture. I’m reading a historical book called The Manor: Three centuries at a slave plantation on Long Island by Mac Griswold. This 70 year old woman, Mac, is a cultural landscape historian, a fascinating job. When she was a little girl in the 1950s growing up in New Jersey, […]
Read More Fascinating modern architecture to 1700 manor houses…it’s all goodhttp://mercurygirl49.wix.com/underthebananamoon-1 Finally my book has an official website. After days of working on this site for my book, I can get back to blogging! Kim
Read More Under the banana moon finally has an official websiteHave you ever felt you resided inside that place in a harmonica where moist breath and music meet? Have you ever felt like one of those perfectly imperfect pine trees that grow sideways on golf courses? Ok well have you ever felt like a collection of soft blue, pink, white grey lint, like the kind […]
Read More Feeling around in a flowery dictionThis poster is an example of some unusual art I came across quite by happy accident some years ago. The Empty Set Project Space was active sporadically as a gallery between 2001 and 2008. It […]
Read More Magic and Innovative Art in A Sisyphean WorldThere is a mysterious local New Haven artist going only by the moniker: ‘Believe In People,’ often shortened to BIP. Watch out! A giant baby holding a briefcase-wielding businessman! This particular painting ‘sprung’ up “guerrilla style” on the side of a business along State Street. In this instance, the painter had the permission of the […]
Read More Believe In People and also Levi Brown, “Graffiti” and Photography/Art taken to New Lengths!I pick up things all the time. They don’t have to be shiny. Sometimes something catches my eye. How about sticks? You know…twigs, tree arms, small limbs, branches, tree offshoots, switches. That’s what I’m talking about. I guess it’s just that time of year when I get an urge to collect, to craft, to bring […]
Read More Keeping it Real, Feeling CRAFTYWhy mosaics? I like the shiny full color allure of “coffee table” books. The large exotic collection of pictures I never tire of. There are three such books I am finding myself picking up over and over. I’ve owned them for years. I share them with visiting children, I open them for peaceful […]
Read More LOST ART of Dr. Suess, Books, Mosaics and Pleasure in Broken PiecesWho remembers the old series “The Night Gallery,” hosted by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame? In the beginning of each show, Serling did some opening intro dialogue in an art gallery setting setting. He’d unveil a macabre looking painting, that depicted the show’s storyline. You can see this show in reruns on the MEtv channel, which […]
Read More Where are The Night Gallery Paintings now?This is a copy of my friend Colin’s issue. He is drawn behind the glass cubes. I want to tell you about an old friend. His name was Colin. I thought I was telling Colin a bit of news when I relayed to him that Vincent Van Gogh pronounced his name “Van Guff” or Van […]
Read More The Common Person, Most Uncommon through the eyes of Colin and VincentSoothing Places… Some places leave vivid etchings on our memories. When we close our eyes and drift…we’re almost there again. I was about 8 years old. There were crayfish to trap and study in Grandma’s Brook. I never saw more than one claw of the crayfish I named ‘Crab With The Big Green Claw,’ […]
Read More Inside My Head AgainSome years ago I was wondering whether or not I should be a tattoo artist. Sounds fulfilling and fun. But then I got to thinking, what about all the small talk involved and touching of other people? Not really my thing. I mean if it were possible to tell […]
Read More Wisteria, Blue Roses, Murals, and Human DiversityA few years ago, my daughter came inside the house carrying something. She put the thing in my hand. It was grey, solid, an almost perfectly round rock, which fit in my palm. She’d found a keen rock-ball. Across the street from me are natural caves. There’s a mountain with a flag on top, and […]
Read More I have 48 years, I will do much moreGrowing up, I never bothered looking at people long enough to see them as anything other than blurry models out of Matisse paintings; jumbled but interesting. I especially hated pictures of relatives hanging on walls. You could never ever avoid their staring eyes. I’d have to dash past them. I […]
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