This is What I Do

This post is visual and follows on from my discovery of Amanda (now Mel) Baggs’ 2007 video, In My Language. The original post about Mel’s video is called I See Myself. Half homage, half exploration – I continue to see myself anew. Feeling my way into thinking, knowing, planning and fluid speech through tactile experience

Burning Sage

NB This is a blog post which was first published on Barcelona in a Bag, my art blog about the Spanish Civil War.  The refugee crisis is now fully in the public mind. Last week proved decisive in a process of galvanising compassion and propelling large numbers of citizens into action. We marched, made banners,

I see myself

Objects vibrate, resonate, empathise and chatter. Objects speak. I’m so very grateful to Steve Silberman for introducing me to Amanda Baggs (now Amelia/Mel) on p16 of  NeuroTribes.  In 2007  a CNN video entitled ‘In My Language‘ featured Mel’s autistic language, consisting of wordless singing and stimming with objects and in response to the environment. In my