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  • Genre:art
  • Sub-genre:General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:180
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317805586

Nonsense and Hopeful Songs

My Inner Fight To Be Heard

By c.l. lunn

Overview


Written by a non-speaking autistic poet and painter, Charles Lenny Lunn's impassioned art, rich in bold, gestural strokes, layered planes, and hidden depths, distills the underlying rhythms and small absurdities of everyday events. His body moves freely through space as he applies paint to paper and creates luminous images through spelling.

By spelling on a letterboard, one letter at a time, and through the vivid textures of his paintings, he redefines self-expression, turning everyday moments into inspired messages and powerful realities. Lunn’s message of love, compassion, and inclusion challenges viewers to reconsider their beliefs about autism and intelligence.

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Description


Nine lifetimes have passed while music in stars turned me into the right person to tell us this tale. Another might try to have you believe day to day nature is all we are. Bluntly, that is horseshit. Being human necessarily means being made up of little specks of the vast cosmos.

Nasty skeptics will tell you I never could have written this. Blinding belief in certainty of their science. Many see me as retarded. I’m kind of slow in my movements but that’s very literally the only way in which that word applies to. My mind races very blazingly fast. In my sleep, big words fill my dreams. I bribe my brain nearly every night just to get some rest. But it’s also exhausting to have to negotiate with your own body.

My art lets me free my mind from the constraints of my junky body. I work in abstract styles so I’m not bound by having the fine motor control of an elephant. My body is free to do its thing. A big way I view my art openly accepts the disconnect between my mind’s look at the subjects and my body’s interpretation.

The words I’ve paired with some images reflect what came in my mind. I don’t suppose my words will necessarily match yours. Nonsense and hopeful songs run through my mind. Quite sure it’s not nearly as hectic in most minds. Where else do hearing impaired angels, poor moutons from Le Petit Prince, and Billy Collins get to mingle together?

I invite you to join on a promenade of joyful discovery in the dark shadows and bright lights of my innermost spaces. Now, onward.


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About The Author


Charles Lenny Lunn, nonspeaking autistic poet and painter, came into the world on June 2, 1990, in London, England. Not using speech like other children, he spent years hiding in his imaginary universe and thinking about a truly just space in stark contrast to the ones that exist in the boarding schools and autism specialty centers in the real world. Learning to communicate on letterboards opened new tasks of high artistry for Charles.

Now Charles uses everyday things to inspire his reality-driven poems and art. From noisy mouth-talkers in line at Target to snippets of conversations with joyful minds to shadows on the drive home, Charles believes there is beauty in most places, if one has the eye constantly trained - looking, looking, looking.


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