Bouquet of Life
Bouquet of Life - Original Painting by Yi Chen Yi Chen is a 13-year-old artist and poet from the Bay Area. A nonspeaking autistic teenager who communicates through typing, Yi shares his thoughts and creativity through painting, poetry, and music. He is the author of I Have a Voice and writes the blog Yi’s Voice , offering readers a window into his experiences and perspective as a non-speaking person with autism and apraxia. He is an intelligent and creative young artist with many talents, not just someone with many diagnoses or disabilities. In Bouquet of Life , he painted with passion for life, despite what life throws at him. It is a personal quest for love and joy. In his poem: Between the nots I am god I am heaven I am teacher I am student I am the light I am the sun I am who I am He demonstrated his fierce love for art through strokes with white, pink, yellow, blue and red. He expressed his love for life with powerful movements and...