Look. Up.

As a person who still gets Citigroup Center confused with the Bloomberg Tower, I am particularly fascinated by Stephen Wiltshire's current project at the Pratt Institute.  Wiltshire, a British artist on the Autism spectrum who didn't learn to speak until he was nine years old, has a remarkable gift for drawing city skylines in great detail ... from memory. Wiltshire has been drawing the New York City Skyline from memory on-site at the Pratt Institute since Monday, October 26th.  You can watch him, live on webcam, here. Designboom has close-up photos of the canvas and the work is stunning.

Here's a profile of Wilstshire that aired on BBC as part of the German-produced "Beautiful Minds"  series (Expedition ins Gehrin).

 Since the Balloon Boy fiasco, it's nice to have a new reason to look up. 

Comments

[barri rafferty]

This guy is amazing. Things like this make me think very differently about the human brains' capacity.