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 layering elements and artistic expression. He wishes whoever bids his art a strong heart and passion for life. He wants to support the Brain Foundation and its mission by donating his art. 

18x24 acrylic on canvas

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