I am an artist myself but this is not about me. I have a son an amazing son that puts pen to T shirt like yourself. JJ like all sons is very special and has a learning disablilty and unitl my son had a learning disability I didn’t really know what that meant. JJ’s brain is unable to process phonics, it’s never going to, it is disabled in that way. This has made speech, reading and writing a VERY complicated process. JJ is now 17 and after years of speech therepy, where we were told he was not trying, to various labelling we finally got to see a pediatrician who after testing simply said she had no idea how JJ copes with reading and writing. That somehow his visual skills had taken up the slack with his processing skills and that the words he knows are by the shape of the words and that how they sound is of no significance. I must say that JJ speaks as well as you and I and has quite a large vocabulary.

So…sharpies. JJ has an interest in art and is a very visual person, he started doing Tags at first, then words, logos. We bought him a pad and for Christmas we gave him a toolbox with various sharpies. He filled the pad, drew on his skateboard, his helmet and some other things then he started T shirts, they are VERY popular at his school. I suppose this is the way JJ sees words, funny how things turn out.

I would love to send you a photograph of his work. He is my son and as I mentioned they are all special. He is in his last year at school and will be graduating 2011.

Thanks