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  • #ActuallyAutistic Auditory Matrixing and also I Got A New Fan

    #ActuallyAutistic Auditory Matrixing and also I Got A New Fan

    Whether it’s the weird sounds of a new all-plastic fan or the melodic symphony of everyday life (think: “@#$%”), I embrace the beauty of unexplainable moments, and cherish the unique ways my mind interprets the world around me.

  • #SugarArtForAutism, Kimberly Gerry-Tucker art, Cakes and cakes!

    #SugarArtForAutism, Kimberly Gerry-Tucker art, Cakes and cakes!

    I recall when my mother discovered how to pipe butter cream frosting roses. It was the first time I’d heard of wax paper, which is what the trays of roses went on when they went into the fridge. At about 7 or 8 years old, I was an adept student of frosting flowers. It (frosting)…

  • Ranting on random stuff

    Ranting on random stuff

    I sat on my specific recliner couch corner spot; in the Christmas-lights glow-quietness of having been productive and that glow of tired you get too, when you’ve done all you can. And the blanket was soft. And it was Christmas Eve but despite the wrapping and baking and decor (dollar store paper things with jolly…

  • Art of Autism’s annual women’s history month Contest Closed

    THE ART OF AUTISMAnnounces the annual WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH contest open to autistic artists.For more info, email KIM at: aoaWHMcontest@gmail.comDeadline Feb. 28, 2021. Please share widely! I enjoy flooding March on a daily Basis with an homage to women in art. #womenshistory #WomensHistoryMonth #contest #artwork #autisticartist #artoflove #artcreation #ArtofAutism sponsored by ArtLifting

  • Online conference

    Check out this online conference, my bit was on at 2:15 EST Nov. 28, 2020, but the conference can be viewed in entirety. .. https://youtu.be/NLZRUlsYIMo Note: AsymptomaticSpread is real. Five people I love (a whole household) had #COVID19 The man pictured here has died. I don’t normally share things like this but here’s a link.…

  • Seeing the person and not just the disability

    Seeing the person and not just the disability

    My blog post is here today! https://the-art-of-autism.com/assistive-technology-helping-Seeing the person snd not just the disabilitymeans-truly-seeing-the-person-beyond-disability/

  • Covid Pasttimes

    Covid Pasttimes

    My 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…

  • I reviewed Laura James’ book Odd Girl Out -review by Kimberly Gerry-Tucker

    I reviewed Laura James’ book Odd Girl Out -review by Kimberly Gerry-Tucker

    Hello. Below find my review of Odd Girl Out by Laura James. OddGirlOut review by Kim Tucker

  • I’m Introverted and I’m Different (and also a part of the same human race as you)

    I’m Introverted and I’m Different (and also a part of the same human race as you)

    …Continually in flight or fight, there has to be a middle ground that doesn’t fracture. It gets curiouser and curiouser…

  • My review of Jude Morrow’s Why does daddy always look so sad? and other notes

    My review of Jude Morrow’s Why does daddy always look so sad? and other notes

    With my library closed, I’ve been doing more book reviews. I can obtain books I’m interested in and also read, which is something I enjoy.

  • Covid-19 and it’s environmental impact globally

    Covid-19 and it’s environmental impact globally

    If you have time to read, here are some links to the earth healing due to Covid-19 and a few links to how animals are adapting. If you have any similar links, please post in the comments. Crime down in Chicago: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-chicago-police-new-crime-stats-20200331-utnr2apdtbdzhagsehlzvq4lvi-story.html%3foutputType=amp Indians breathe easier: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21A1BV Pollution plummets over China: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/coronavirus-nasa-images-china-pollution-clears-7dd8961d-0627-4342-ab0d-029c872ced1e.html But of course humans…

  • Covid 19 sadness. Restless..

    Covid 19 sadness. Restless..

    .my sore throat is from dust from cleaning closets. My anxiety though is from hell. I’ve not been out since Thursday. This is Sunday. I lied. I’ve gotten the mail on my porch. I’ve gone from low carb searching for ingredients like MCT oil, Miracle noodle fettuccini shirataki and Ghee to carb loading comfort French…

  • Just art by me

    I haven’t much felt like writing. So this is all images. Here are a few more. Stay well.

  • (closed) Women’s history CALL FOR ARTISTS (Art of Autism) prizes

    Call for Autistic Artists for Women’s History Month

  • Book review about Siena Castellon’s autistic girl survival guide

    It was my pleasure reviewing this! https://the-art-of-autism.com/book-review-the-spectrum-girls-survival-guide/

  • Collage by KimberlyGerryTucker

    Collage by KimberlyGerryTucker

    I was thinking how I’ve not been productive lately, artly speaking. And then I went through old canvases. I’ve made quite a few. The last few years 2017-2019 -has actually had quite the output. Some here are a combination acrylic and paper. Most are paper. In some cases, I’m posting portions of larger works. Like…

  • Detransition-My Child’s Journey With Identity

    As some may know, sometime in 2020, hopefully, that date is an estimate- Keri Bower’s film Desire is coming out. It’s a documentary-style film about desire and disability. It will consist of several cds, (6? 7?) and my youngest child and his girlfriend (along with interviews of myself and Al) will have one cd of…

  • Caring for a cat through every life stage, then saying Bye, till we meet again

    Caring for a cat through every life stage, then saying Bye, till we meet again

    I have exactly one picture (that I can locate, anyway), of him as a kitten. Since he was born early 00’s, cell phones with cameras were not in-pocket and at-the-ready, to capture every kitten nuance. My husband was diagnosed with 5 yrs. to live and ALS had him confined to a chair, paralyzed, and with…

  • (closed) Call for Submissions: Women’s history month art

    Last year what a pleasure to see the art as it came in. This year it is open to adults and children. Send art to me (Kim) at podsartofautism@gmail.com Flood me with art! Open to autistic artists, any age

  • Contest: Art of Autism wants your art depicting Women you admire

    Last 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…

  • Thanksgiving That Wasn’t … and Then Was

    Thanksgiving That Wasn’t … and Then Was

    It’s the pan drippings. I’m not a gravy person, really. The idea of all that extra starchiness isn’t appealing, but as the turkey needs to cook for so long, there’re those scents that permeate the house. You go outside with some recycling to put in the bin, into the crisp chill, then when you come…

  • ALS Sucks (excerpt from Under the banana moon) The Mighty

    ALS Sucks (excerpt from Under the banana moon) The Mighty

    If you’ve read my book Under the Banana Moon, then you’re familiar with this story I wrote that The Mighty published recently. Excerpt here: https://themighty.com/2019/11/als-diagnosis-contrast-fall-beauty/?utm_source=engagement_bar&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=story_page.engagement_bar/

  • Teeter Totter Brains

    Teeter Totter Brains

    I have a blog here today at the below link. Debra says: “Today is not only Halloween (Happy Halloween!). It’s the last day of #DisabilityHistoryMonth . Kimberly Gerry-Tucker looks at some creatives and how their brains were wired differently. Fun read!” https://the-art-of-autism.com/9-great-teeter-totter-brains-with-the-brilliance-quirk-balance-disabilityhistorymonth/

  • Halloween Shenanigans

    Halloween Shenanigans

    I don’t have a single picture of me in costume as a child. Rolls of film cost money then and we chose carefully what to take pictures of. But I did find this memorable costume which I actually wore. The Princess with the butter-yellow hair ……

  • Snowing in the bedroom

    Snowing in the bedroom

    It’s Autumn, not winter. Let me explain. But first-butterflies. This plant attracts butterflies, like these pictures I took at the beach: (They let me get very close). A funny thing happened last night. I’m collecting these milkweed pods for a craft project I’ll eventually share here… so I’m keeping the pods on my bedroom shelf…

  • My Rising Son

    Here’s an intro short video to my son’s changes. Link to short video Art by Silas; Prisoner of Time

  • FINDING MY NORMAL

    I have a blog here today:   https://the-art-of-autism.com/finding-my-normal/?fbclid=IwAR3AgTQ8HypyRQXglCmZPRpjO1WGli3yZpzcQFqARWfMYfH-OGNmTvmNYbk  

  • The Orange Comes, The Orange Fades

    The Orange Comes, The Orange Fades

              I see their heavy heads hanging. And last night’s rain that sopped the too-tall grass surrounding the tilted stems. Kind of making me feel heavy; over there with their petals in their faces. The sunflowers have nodded off. The glory part of their season seems over.  I think nodding off…

  • Suess Review (Jones) and My Art Updates

    Suess Review (Jones) and My Art Updates

    Big X Little x X…x…X Someday, kiddies, you’ll learn about sex!

  • Holy Dust Motes, Suess, Mime

    Holy Dust Motes, Suess, Mime

    When I have an interest, I greatly pursue it- if “they” say I’m eccentric, I don’t care- I just do it…

  • My Family, My Updates, and Art

    My Family, My Updates, and Art

    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…

  • Fluidity

    Fluidity

    I read a book about a Buddhist monk…

  • Angel Statues. Images from a cemetery.

    Angel Statues. Images from a cemetery.

    Inspired by my Facebook friend Ruth Christine Mortimer, who recently posted photos from an 1800s cemetery near where the Bronte sisters lived, I decided to take some photos in a West Haven Connecticut cemetery. And here’s my favorite. When taking the picture, I did not see the dragonfly above the statue. Here’s a closeup. A…

  • Painting My Nightmares

    Painting My Nightmares

    Anxiety and Night Terrors   You are having a silly dream. Maybe you’re walking with Rod Stewart and he face-planks and when he stands up has a bloody nose. (I had that dream…) But suddenly the silliness transforms. There are more shadows. Looming shapes. Sudden jump-scares. And then: IT. The ‘thing’ in the dream either…

  • Runaway Bardos, lessons learned in retrospect

    Runaway Bardos, lessons learned in retrospect

    I’m reading this book: In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying Hardcover – May 7, 2019 by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche  (Author), Helen Tworkov (Author) Through the “bardos…” Bardos: Defined by wiki: ‘Used loosely, “bardo” is the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before…

  • Proprioception, ASD, Spatial Awareness and Perspective

    Proprioception, ASD, Spatial Awareness and Perspective

    At the ER, the nurse said suspiciously, “That looks like a defense wound.” NOPE. Just me being clumsy. I consciously think before moving any part of me and this is crucial in preventing ‘clumsy’ accidents. I have no autopilot. I have spatial awareness ‘issues’ too. (One of the reasons I don’t drive.)

  • Collection MMXIX Dobbs Ferry

    Collection MMXIX Dobbs Ferry

    I 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…

  • One of these things is not like the others, a spectrum brain sorting life stuff- art and earworms

    One of these things is not like the others, a spectrum brain sorting life stuff- art and earworms

    …this feeling of helplessness and fear must’ve had a large effect on my psyche. This collage is all paper of course- maybe hundreds of pieces so far, and as yet unfinished. It is a depiction of a recurring…

  • Singing Bowl Update

    It sings! My son Silas works with crystals and all things spiritual. For those of you who read my blog about me not being able to get my singing bowl to sing, here’s an update. There was song in there after all! Here’s Silas:

  • Lexie and the rabbit

    My latest blog is here: https://the-art-of-autism.com/the-resonance-of-books-and-kindness/ Please ignore the typos! Kim

  • Katie Oswald: an #actuallyautistic woman making a difference

    I had the pleasure of interviewing Katie Oswald. #women #actuallyautistic #makingadifference Link here: https://the-art-of-autism.com/an-interview-with-nomad-and-wanderlust-katie-oswald/

  • Faeries, Babies, Goddesses, Oh My!

    Faeries, Babies, Goddesses, Oh My!

    Faeries, babies, goddesses, oh my!

  • Gender, Desire, Art, Journey (not in any particular order)

    Gender, Desire, Art, Journey (not in any particular order)

    …..I think of my birth mother who I met a few times before she passed and found out later she loved to tell stories about faeries and little people…

  • Phenomenal Women

    My blog is here today. See link below image. It honors women. https://the-art-of-autism.com/women-are-phenomenal/

  • I Never Knew Bella Blankets Existed (and other epiphanies, like understanding my own artworks several years after I made them!)

    I Never Knew Bella Blankets Existed (and other epiphanies, like understanding my own artworks several years after I made them!)

    THE CRUNCHER TRIGGER WARNING: descriptives of medical problems The facility who did my test follows the “Planetree” philosophy, which means: mindful of a person’s mind, body and spirit. As you’re waiting for your name to be called, there are ‘soothing’ colors, comfortable furnishings, free coffee bar and a water feature. There are snacks in a…

  • Unashamed Voices- adult and still #Actuallyautistic

    Unashamed Voices- adult and still #Actuallyautistic

    #Actuallyautistic …You don’t stop having sensitivities, communication challenges, being autistic… just because you become an adult.

  • Manifesting reality through wish boards

    Here is the link to this blog https://the-art-of-autism.com/manifesting-our-reality-through-wish-boards/

  • Diversity and Dolls-why it’s so dam important

    My latest blog is here: https://the-art-of-autism.com/diversity-represented-in-dolls-a-positive-step-toward-eradicating-stepfordian-world-views/

  • Xmas Pictorial Musings

    Xmas Pictorial Musings

    A quick blog post. This year I decorated sparsely, at least for me…being in the hospital for a few days a few weeks ago threw me. It really put a stick in my bicycle spokes, so to speak… I decorated the front door, in a weird but bright way. I also got around to hanging…

  • Christmas Passed

    Christmas Passed

    As I write this, Thanksgiving is a few days away. But yeah this is a Christmas post. An only child, it was often us three (my parents and I) against the world. When my mother had sudden unexpected heart problems in her 30s, it explained a lot: the reason why she was winded, did little…

  • Navigating Holiday Stressors by an Autistic Woman

    This post I wrote I recently preferred to send to #ArtOfAutism. And so I include the link here for you to read in entirety. Scroll down for link. https://the-art-of-autism.com/insights-from-an-autistic-woman-on-how-to-deal-with-holiday-stressors/

  • KimberlyGerryTucker When Donna Williams interviewed me

    KimberlyGerryTucker When Donna Williams interviewed me

    The purpose of this blog entry is to post an interview link from years ago. But first bear with me, or skip to the bottom and go right to the link 🙂 I get weird on 11-11 which is today, (as I write this.) It’s a day to celebrate those who have served our country.…

  • Trying to Deal

    Trying to Deal

    ….I know children in elementary school who are more cognizant of the way in which they speak than many leaders…

  • Unconventional Unconditional Love

    “Gee… good thing I’m wearing my glasses or I’d be wearing your mucous on my eyeballs.” How many times have I said that? I say it a LOT. #ElderlyCat #CatSneeze Yesterday my son got married at a castle outdoors. Here’s a picture of my youngest granddaughter. Windy and 45 degrees. But we bundled up. My…

  • Things I Learned From Books Over The Summer (incl. 40s sexism)

    Things I Learned From Books Over The Summer (incl. 40s sexism)

    He ‘encouraged’ her by remarking , “This is so good you would not know it was by a woman.”

  • Give Trees a Chance- Visual Musings from an eco-artist

    Give Trees a Chance- Visual Musings from an eco-artist

    There are a few digital here, but most (90%) are collage/acrylic, collage, or acrylic. Putting the trees in one place, here in this homage to trees, painting and collage crops. Trees and more trees. Astonishes me how much time I’ve spent. Well spent I enjoy it. I never really realized how much I’ve painted trees…until…

  • Help… I’m drowning in Paper!

    Help… I’m drowning in Paper!

    Hi folks, if you follow my blog-then you know I’m rarely idle. I encourage you to share this post. There was a time I did not want my artwork seen and in a way, that’s still the case, believe it or not. It’s hard to hit “send” when I share it. I talk about my…

  • We’re all in it together.

    Today’s blog appears on the art of autism site. But first, here’s a few artwork collages I’ve done recently. Here’s the link in honor of Peace month. Peace and diversity: We are all in it together

  • Video Presentation: School, Art, and Selective Mutism/Autism

    Video Presentation: School, Art, and Selective Mutism/Autism

    When I had a presentation on a panel at Lesley college a few years ago, I was the only presenter who did not step up to the microphone and address the crowd. I had a prerecorded video presentation instead. It is not easy to do these things. It amuses me I chose the art room/pan…

  • Attempt to be supported (After a Terminal Illness Diagnosis of a Loved One)

    I wrote this today. It originally appears in my book Under The Banana Moon but I’ve never shared it online before. https://hubpages.com/health/After-ALS-diagnosis-an-Attempt-at-Group-Support

  • When Life Gives You Tiddlywinks

    When Life Gives You Tiddlywinks

    An only child of seven or eight years old with the long ribbon of summer unfurled ahead of me, I wouldn’t say I got bored a lot. I enjoyed my own company, the cat and dog, and the outdoors with its insects and trees, way too much to be bored. But sometimes I’d be in…

  • (UPDATE: she was found) Help Find Daisy-lost in New Orleans

    (UPDATE: she was found) Help Find Daisy-lost in New Orleans

    This is a response to the writing prompt by Wordpress. It’s also serious. Won’t you share Daisy’s info and help her get home to Stacy?

  • Marge Piercy Poem

    I had a fb memory flashback arise and I’d totally forgotten posting it in 2011. So I screenshotted it as I couldn’t get cut and paste to work on the flashback. Who knows why… Anyhow the poem is worth sharing. It’s timeless. Marge Piercy: Image from a salvaged vintage 1890s paper booklet on ladies’ interests,…

  • Balancing Funny with Not-So-Funny (mourning a tree like the over sensitive person I am)

    Balancing Funny with Not-So-Funny (mourning a tree like the over sensitive person I am)

    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…

  • Ineffectual Loraxes Cannot Stop ‘Progress’

    Ineffectual Loraxes Cannot Stop ‘Progress’

    I blame Karl Benz, among other inventors… He set up the world for change forever. Not that someone wouldn’t have come along and invented an automobile if he didn’t think it up. A means of getting from A to B quicker than horses; but so much more. The whole world then took steps to revolve…

  • Ugly smokestacks and wastes of time

    I’m sitting in a Doc appointment waiting room now; near a very pessimistic older woman who’s going on about her troubles; to her companion, a woman she didn’t expect to see here. They’re hugging because the companion’s name just got called to see the doctor. “Now don’t go putting anything on the air about what…

  • My Podcast Episode 37 at Different Brains Spectrumly Speaking

    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,…

  • CHIN UP: Comfort and Faith In a Hospital Room

    CHIN UP: Comfort and Faith In a Hospital Room

    This is a confessional story. It has an air of “what just happened here?” and “kind words make a difference” and “sheer dumb luck.” It’s about forgiving one’s self, too. It was 1982. I was a mother at 17. Most everyone in my peer group was. I had recently lost my beloved Grandma to “old…

  • Announcements

    My podcast with Different Brains will air March 26th. I had the pleasure of writing for Spectrum Woman. 🍀Link here: Spectrum Woman KimTucker That’s all for now!

  • TWO and Fro

    TWO and Fro

    … If we can somehow tailor this so it is comfortable for you, is it something you would like to do? …

  • Random Insights, New Collage

    Random Insights, New Collage

    Here’s a random thing that happened recently: I was given a prescription for compression socks because I have an enlarged saphenous vein. Boy are those stockings stretchy! Last week, at a routine exam at my GP, I started removing my compression socks to get an EKG. Compression socks are so springy that one flew out…

  • PODS project seeking submissions

    PODS project seeking submissions

    Here is my combination Intro blog to Art of Autism and description of my proposed project. Please feel free to submit. PODS

  • JUST FOR FUN: 32 iPhone clip on microscope magnifier Pictures

    JUST FOR FUN: 32 iPhone clip on microscope magnifier Pictures

    I bought myself a toy for Christmas and it was only around five dollars. I love microscopic pictures. Here is a visual blogpost of some pictures I took with my new toy. Yes, you are going to think some of these look like little planets, due to the viewer being round. Here are my favorites:…

  • Where Does The Past Begin?

    Where Does The Past Begin?

    Great authors turn words of phrase into streams of consciousness. In Amy Tan’s memoir “Where The Past Begins,” she notes the significance of bringing/sending flowers to funerals. I used to wonder why flowers appeared surrounding and draped on caskets. Wasn’t this, I pondered, a cold reminder of life and beauty? A distraction for the living;…

  • I’ve Never Written About My MeToos (and I’m not doing that here)

    I’ve Never Written About My MeToos (and I’m not doing that here)

    This 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…

  • In Progress, An Unfinished Church

    In Progress, An Unfinished Church

    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…

  • Only So Much A Soul Can Bear?

    Only So Much A Soul Can Bear?

    Sometimes I feel like a sponge.

  • Updates to my website

    Updates to my website

    I’ve been working on updating my personal author/artist website all week. Do visit! Tell me what you think. And if you’ve got a link you think I should add to the links page, send it to me.  Here is the link.  Kim

  • You Never See It Coming

    You Never See It Coming

    September sneaked up on me. I just had a few mini vacations: Vermont, NY, Massachusetts. And I got to walk on the beach this past summer. Now I understand that this is the last Autumn my Maple will drop leaves. It’s marked for murder. Every day the treecutters are closer and closer. September and February…

  • Cauldon? Flow Blue? What Is This Plate?

    Cauldon? Flow Blue? What Is This Plate?

    What is this plate? Does anyone know anything about vintage Cauldon plates? The mystery of this for over a decade is driving me nuts!

  • Do you Name Your Couches Too? And other musings

    Do you Name Your Couches Too? And other musings

    I don’t make elves anymore. I make little fairy village houses instead  but I used to make elves. I used to snip pieces of fabric to sew into elf outfits. The elves I made myself and stuffed with batting – they were usually made of felt and clothed from things I found in my home,…

  • Prompt: Disobey

    Prompt: Disobey

    I’ve never participated in a WordPress blog prompt. The prompt is “Disobey.” Here’s my take on that. If you google it, Disobey is a music video, an apparel line, and a website for the discontented. “The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge will award $250,000 to an individual or a group…

  • Aftermaths

    Aftermaths

    …I saw this old fashioned looking smoke alarm on the ceiling. “I bet that doesn’t even work,” I said-…

  • Hangry For Peaceful Moments

    Hangry For Peaceful Moments

    There 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…

  • On Curiosity 

    On Curiosity 

    My 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…

  • Finally reading 5 people you meet in heaven

    Finally reading 5 people you meet in heaven

    “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………

  • An Environment Conversation and Awareness Through Art

    An Environment Conversation and Awareness Through Art

    I 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.

  • From basalt to armpits, rebooting an introverted brain

    From basalt to armpits, rebooting an introverted brain

    That feeling of being disappointed over circumstance and powerless, apathy with life, uncertainty and indecision with the future. People around me, when they feel that way, when they’re hurting, my empath takes over and I just…absorb it. Because each self declared “stuck in quagmire” person who’s expressed that lately (in my circle) is an inspiration…

  • I wish I could fly and other summer musings

    I wish I could fly and other summer musings

    The heat and rain have presented themselves in such alternating abundance this season, that the watermelon container garden is lovely with big leaf greenery… Fruit to come? ~dare I hope. The kale has been harvested once and was better than any from the store. Summertime does not mean vanity to me. I don’t fear the…

  • Basket of Possibilities, Faery villages and goat eyes

    Basket of Possibilities, Faery villages and goat eyes

    I 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:                              …

  • power of words

    power of words

    Oh the Power of Words, especially unspoken and feared ones, the ones we don’t ever want to hear, which lay coiled in wait for unguarded moments to strike. And when least expected. Unleashed, some words cut as if freshly sharpened from whetstones. And, of course, the opposite is also true:  words can be blankets. Soothing…

  • Just Being. 

    I’d written this a few years ago and wouldn’t you know it, I’d forgotten that I wrote it.  http://the-art-of-autism.com/kimberly-creative-lady-on-the-autism-spectrum/http://the-art-of-autism.com/kimberly-creative-lady-on-the-autism-spectrum/

  • When your singing bowl won’t sing for you

    When your singing bowl won’t sing for you

    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…

  • #Sugarart4autism 2017

     Last year on “autism awareness day”, it was the first time I’d heard of 100s of cake artists, inspired by arts made by autists, making cakes inspired by their paintings.  It’s not a Call-For-submissions thing, so I was surprised to get a tweet (out of the blue so to speak) saying #Enriqe Rojas from #HaveSomeCake,…

  • Faeries, Busy-ness, Crafty Stuff or What I’ve Been Up To

    Faeries, Busy-ness, Crafty Stuff or What I’ve Been Up To

    This 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…

  • Present

    I’m not sure about this statement: “The butterfly is proof that after a period of darkness, one can become something beautiful.”      Metamorphosis is thought provoking. I’m not the first to think so and won’t be the last. I’m sure the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths too, has inspired people, from the youngest to…

  • Inspired By The Mysterious

    Distraction is necessary for my sanity these days 😡This image intrigued me when I first saw it: From the site link listed at the end of the blog: “…..the eye is caught now and then by a huge spiral column of white stone standing out in relief from the side of a hill, and rising…

  • Musings of an Earnest Reader who Loves a Turn of Phrase

    Da Chen, a Chinese student who interpreted for English speakers, was not accustomed to indoor plumbing. He was set up in an air conditioned hotel for his first interpreter gig, with spectacular accommodations he clearly was not used to… He said he could — “hardly believe his stinky naked toes had once touched the carpeted…

  • Oops My Aspergers Is Showing! 

    David Snape, a talented peer/blogger, has put some of my writing on his fab blog. Here is the link:  https://davidsnape.me/2017/01/25/oops-my-aspergers-is-showing-by-kimberly-tucker/

  • CHANGE IS AFOOT

    I don’t have to remind you what Friday brings. You already know. I’m presently reading ‘The Lost City of the Monkey God;’ by Douglas Preston, a writer and explorer who ventured into an undisturbed Hondurian jungle for historic and archeological study.  In the book I came across a description of the fall of Mayan society.…