The beginning.

Ronan wasn’t diagnosed with ASD until he was 7. His original drawings and art - which he had almost no interest in creating - can be seen in the first pictures - flowers in one and a flag in the other. Direct representation of things was not part of his creative psyche.

His spontaneous art - which began to appear around age 4 - is shown in the organization of his cans of Pediasure and syringes on the stairs (Syringes and Pediasure) - which led to the balloons in his room (If Balloons Could Talk) - and the other strange creations with toothbrushes (Oral Aversion) and taping things to walls (Tree of Uncertainty).

Ronan never played like a neurotypical kid - mostly breaking things and constructing makeshift dumpsters everywhere - but he would suddenly create these odd everyday sculptures for no apparent reason other than releasing the aesthetic energy he felt.