I’ve got this theory that the giant majority—like 99.9% of all humans toiling creatively—are small potatoes. We’ll never be rich. We’ll never be famous … nowhere near as famous as we should be. Yet, we struggle on, undeterred that most of the world considers us to be small potatoes … if they consider us at all.
~ Ayun Halliday’s, Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto
Keep on Truckin’. It’s an image inspired by a song with the same title.
From the suite images by Bill Hendricks, “Words That I Cannot Spell.”
Dyslexia is not a disability – it’s a gift. It means that I, and many other dyslexic thinkers can portray the world through images because we think in images. I can build worlds, freeze the frame, walk around and touch. I can read people’s faces, drawings, buildings, landscapes and all things in the visual world more quickly than many of my non-dyslexic friends. I paint with words; they are my colours.
~ Sally Gardner (Davis Dyslexia Association International)
Growing up, I had no idea why I had such a hard time reading and comprehending what I read. In my day, elementary school classes would divide the classes readers into three or four groups in the early grades: good, so-so, and poor. I always wanted to be in a good reader’s group but always found myself in the poor group with a good reader (a classmate) as our tutor. I never knew why I was having such a horrible time reading things I wanted to read.
It was not until I joined the USAF found that I was dyslexic. Reading is still a struggle, but I, too, believe as Sally Gardner believes. Those of us who have dyslexia have the opportunity to see the world differently. Personally, I think that dyslexia contributed to my ability to express myself through art and other endeavors that required creativity while solving problems.
I included Sally Gardner’s poem, Disobeys Me, with my suite of images in the gallery named Words that I Cannot Spell, which I believe strikes a cord that many with dyslexia identify.
I want to thank Hunt and Gather Antiques for allowing me to photograph the incredible collection of letters in their backlot.
Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multiplayer online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Francisco–based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003. ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
SLEA-Thank youThank you, SLEA
Second Life 1/4 sim Grant–The property looking down at it. Mostly I am focused on shapes. I do appreciate the texture and color of my neighbors. I have an unexpected surprise I have two missiles flying over the property. #Shadowmason,_Tap_Quentin,_Second_Life
There are things I can imagine and I can draw. There are things I can imagine but I cannot draw. But, could I draw something that I cannot imagine? ~ István Orosz Graphic designer, animated film director, author.
