01.18.10
Through Autistic Eyes
My cousin took us out to Marikina, and one of our stops was at the SM mall. At the mall we ran into an art display, which turned out to be rather interesting. This is an example of the artwork we saw.
And this. . .
We found that the artist is autistic and was right there drawing on the spot.
It turns out that the people he drew, or draws, are actual people he’s seen. Many of his drawings were for sale in the form of bookmarkers. I thought they were so cute, so I bought a few. I couldn’t make up my mind which I liked best, so these are the ones I picked out.
As a nice little touch, the backs of these bookmarkers have different Bible verses. Aaron liked that little detail.
But then, that wasn’t it. We found that he was actually drawing people there at the mall. . . Errp! So we decided that it would be cute if he could draw us, too. Here we are with Vico (the artist) holding up the pics he drew of us. Aaron is on the left, I’m next to him. Vico is in the middle with the plaid shirt, and my cousin is next to him on the right of the picture.
Here’s a closer shot of his rendition of us.
Ha! I know these don’t really look like us, but it was fun anyway, and at least the clothing is kinda like what we were wearing. Besides, this makes a great souvenir for me. I plan to trim them like he does and mount them into a frame. Hope it turns out okay. Wish my other boys were with us so that we could have had a family picture, heheheh.
Anyway, thought that was fun to share. I see that my travelogue is getting out of order, but oh, well.
Until next time!
Marlakins
Matthew said,
January 19, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Looks like Saturday morning cartoons!
Hmm . . . I thought Filipinos were short . . .
patti said,
January 19, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I LOVE these! What a neat thing to see while out and about. I’m with you, a family picture would have been neat! Actually, they do kind of look like you guys. In a cartoonish sort of way.
Matthew said,
January 19, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Those are so funny looking. All the guys are broad and all the gals are skinny.
Looks neat.
marinel said,
January 20, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Funny. I think they look like you. Hee. Hee.
marbles said,
January 20, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Those are so cute! And I do have to agree that they do look resemble you guys in a cartoonish way hehe!
Administrator said,
January 20, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Hee hee! I’m glad you all liked those. We thought they were neat, too! I forgot to mention that Vico wrote our names on the tops of our drawings, but he called me and Mel “tita” and “tito.” Heheheheh. So if you can kinda make it out above our drawings it says, “Tita Marla,” and “Tito Mel.” But I guess Aaron still looks like a kid to him, and he just wrote, “Aaron” above his picture.
Matty and Patti: In Tagalog “tita” means auntie, and “tito” means uncle. . .
Okay! Ya’ll take care!
Marla