JASON JACKSON

My name is Jason Jackson have been diagnosed as an Autistic male since approximately 1998. 

I found out I was Bipolar in the process also. My creativity has been dormant for several years. During school years I always felt like I was on an academic path, but that it wasn't easy for me to complete learning tasks.  In college (a community college) I learned an LD: Learning Disability called visual processing disability.  

My version of it shows up in these drawings – the fact that I like line drawings and am comfortable drawing perspective. I don't do art with a result in mind, I kind of find my way by sizing up the paper and by cutting it up with lines.  That helps my focus; in a creative way.  Most artists are more prolific and produce more, however I've been told by Tracy Chocoloushek, the Creative coordinator at a program called Creative Growth in Oakland, California, that I am process oriented.    

I think I have creativity in my blood; I feel like it's a restless kind of energy that has to creep out on the page. Or else I will be less productive and happy if I don't do it at my stage in life. 

I am looking to show my art to a wider audience than have seen it up to this point.