Hasty pencil and ink on printer paper, pretteh-fied with some very basic CG rendering.
Reading too much Noël Coward and dining with too many femme fatales.
Embarrassingly old:
Graphite and ink on good ol’ printer paper.
I’m late for National Autism Awareness Month, but then, this isn’t something that needs to be isolated in order to appreciate, or — more accurately — marvel at and delight in:
Stephen Wiltshire is a British man who was diagnosed as autistic when he was a child. He’s also been noted for his exacting memory, which allows him to recreate [in drawings] vast scenes he sees only once. This video shows his 16-foot-panorama of Rome after taking one helicopter ride above the city.
Personally, I think “the Human Camera” is a somewhat dehumanizing moniker, one that pathologizes Wiltshire’s dazzling gift as a dog-and-pony show.
Because he’s autistic (which I actually just typed as ‘artistic’), his work will always be imprisoned in the context of savantism.
I certainly don’t want to discount Wiltshire’s autism or photographic memory; I’m simply raising the question as to why viewers can’t articulate his process as something beyond an ultimately narrow, clinical condition.
So it goes: be different and special, kids, but never too much so.
Ink on printer paper. Commissioned.
