Bats were once considered to be strange, featherless Birds condemned to the night, surely longing for the light of day like other Birds. Not unlike autistic people - expected to exist in ways that are not natural for us and assumed to be unhappy with our tragic lot in life. Bat's aren't Birds though - and just like autistic people they have their own ways of doing things. Ah, Poor Bird - take your flight Up above the sorrow of this dark night. Ah, Poor Bird - as you fly Can

Sensory art is much harder than people think. Sure, you can throw together a bunch of stuff that feels nice to touch and play some...

I've already written about my proprioceptive sensory experiences and why I draw them as proprioceptively distorted animals in another...

Did you know that we have more than five senses? One of these lesser known senses is 'proprioception' - the sense of bodily location and...

Inspired by sketching activities from the Urban Field Naturalist Project , this Bat was drawn in a single continuous line. Using a...

Many autistic people experience sensory synaesthesia. Synaesthesia means that different senses are cross wired so that when one kind of...

These cute little people are my first attempts at weaving Bats, a series of designs that I have been working on and perfecting since...

Once described to me as "the strongest bit of magic you've ever made", my little folded paper Bat was a spur-of-the-moment thing put...