LISTEN Here
READ Artwork Tells The Story Autistic Man Creates In List Form by Laura Bonnell, CBS Radio Detroit – WWJ / June 30, 2014
MORE INFO: “Hiding Places: From Memory,” Kohler Art Center, WI
CATALOGUE ESSAY by Dr. Darrold A Treffert (autistic savant expert) and Leslie Umberger, Kohler Arts Center curator.
The Rumpus wrote about it here
Below: Images and video from art opening
Taking notes on the hors d’oeurves.
Transcribed by Gavin from the wall text, and translated into his cadence and form.
Gavin photographing his original writings that Leona saved, archived, and installed in the vitrine.
Recording Mileage distances to Chicago, and other destinations in Michigan along the way. The mention of Battle Creek triggers a memory for Gavin from May 16, 1984.
Above: Gavin’s list of mileage distances from the Michigan Welcome Center to various cities in the state
Gavin’s library of books and hand-written or typed “projects” (lists, directions, and autobiographical documentation) are updated and discarded/recycled by him weekly, monthly, or yearly, whenever the information contained within expires and/or the publishers issue a new edition. He has been filling up a spiral notebook with written projects on the average of one a month.
