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Friday, November 6, 2009 9:03:51 AM

Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. As a child he was mute, and did not relate to other human beings. Aged three, he was diagnosed as autistic. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly.

In May 2005, following a short helicopter ride over Tokyo, he drew a stunningly detailed panoramic view of the city on a 10-meter-long canvas, from memory. Since then he has drawn Rome, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem and London on giant canvasses.

The last drawing in the series was of his spiritual home, New York...

Stephen Wiltshire's website

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Comments

Andrea A. Biancoandreabianco Friday, November 6, 2009 8:21:13 PM

I learned about him few days ago and it's something that truly amazes me. I have deep difficulties even understanding and memorizing simple geometric shapes; drawings costs me big efforts if I want to be precise, and my being lazy is not helping me either. What makes me sad about Stephen and other ones like him is that they are missing a lot about life (lack of "proper" communication chances) and I don't think their magic gifts can fullfill those holes. Anyway, it's a quite vast topic. I just hope he will receive a lot of love from people and not only "wow" faces cos of his amazing skill.

Aleksander AasAleksander Friday, November 20, 2009 10:57:14 AM

Amazing. The attention to details is insane.

I don't totally agree with you Andrea, if people with exceptional skills choose to do things like that with their life and are happy doing so why not?

Andrea A. Biancoandreabianco Friday, November 20, 2009 12:07:33 PM

I suppose I explained myself bad Aleksander smile I was meaning that even if they have amazing gifts they are still lacking some instruments for living a complete communication and build "normal" human relationships etc, and I feel it is sad that they can impress us but at the same time they are missing a big part of what human society living is. I hope it is more clear now smile

Liu Friday, November 20, 2009 4:25:38 PM

A friend of mine said that scientists (neurologists) say that we use only 10% of our brain capability, what if we could use 90%...

nguyen huy tuongramthangtamh Thursday, December 3, 2009 5:29:38 AM

if we just use 50% encephalon be became superman already!
Welcome You!

Forward to get acquainted!

I come from Vietnam

nguyen huy tuongramthangtamh Thursday, December 3, 2009 9:57:09 AM

Bienvenue Vous!

si nous utilisons seulement 50% encéphale être devenu Superman déjà!

Je viens du Vietnam

Transférer de faire connaissance!

Liu Thursday, December 3, 2009 5:57:26 PM

lol Cám ơn nhiều !

EasyD44 Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:25:01 PM

Fascinating!! And he is drawing my home city!! wooo! cool

I think his family would be proud that he has a special skill that he can devote his time to, because when I worked autistic children, it was a HUGE event if we could even get them to do an activity for more then 10-20 minutes.
Good for him! thanks for the post!

studio41 Monday, May 3, 2010 7:49:45 AM

very incredible artwork!

Belle Sofja Andreevnasonjabelle Monday, May 24, 2010 10:56:06 PM

Good! very good!!!!

MARTIN HARRISMARTINHARRIS Friday, June 11, 2010 5:23:43 PM

Outstanding!

Meowechappy Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:40:16 AM

He had drawn my city also yes

Originally posted by andreabianco:

even if they have amazing gifts they are still lacking some instruments for living a complete communication and build "normal" human relationships etc,


No one knows how and what in other's brain. He lives in his own world and may be he enjoys this kind of silence smile

Liu Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:19:29 PM

Which city is it ? smile

Meowechappy Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:50:18 AM

H.K. smile

Liu Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:22:40 PM

Waowwwwwwwwwwww smile

Meowechappy Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:14:57 AM

Waowwwwwwwwwwww rolleyes whistle
Yesss...a small but lovely place happy

Liu Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:28:08 PM

I've been there once for 24 hours only smile

Meowechappy Friday, July 30, 2010 5:55:35 AM

transit?? You may not like this small place since it's crowded with people, air pollution problem, too hot (weather bigsmile )...but it's the best place for me yes

Liu Friday, July 30, 2010 4:36:21 PM

Mmmh, you might be right, there are so many beautiful places in the world where the nature is pure, fresh and silent smile

Meowechappy Friday, July 30, 2010 5:34:38 PM

Yes..but Hong Kong is still a nice place (needless to say...so many nice people bigsmile )
Hv a nice weekend!!

Liu Friday, July 30, 2010 8:19:44 PM

Mmmmh...

Nice WE to you too !

Meowechappy Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:17:36 AM

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Hv a super nice weekend and enjoy it http://matcuoi.com

Meowechappy Wednesday, August 4, 2010 11:42:05 AM

up Glad u wake up from the deep sleep and enjoy the seaside wine

Shaunak DeShaunak Saturday, September 4, 2010 11:32:04 AM

That's an amazing piece of art. up

Liu Saturday, September 4, 2010 2:28:14 PM

Thanks for visiting ! smile

Tom RondelloFrlmnk Saturday, September 18, 2010 8:09:54 PM

bigeyes that's a lot of detail! I would have driven the nuns in grade school stark raving mad with that ability! Those habits had me staring too inquisitively as it was!
I wouldn't need to, now! lol

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