A curated selection of paintings, poetry, essays, photography and other art forms by Persons with Parkinson’s.


There is a body of research in cognitive science suggesting that the onset of Parkinsons’s disease may produce a creative impulse in some. There is no question that to be reminded of one’s mortality is sobering and can drive one to look for ways to process the grief and other emotions they may be feeling. Others, having stepped away from their careers, suddenly have more time on their hands and search for a way to spend this time productively. But for some special few, there is something more mysterious and magical at work. Some become filled a creative impulse that seeks an outlet and, when expressed, helps soothe them. For these few, art becomes integral to their lives in ways that they never thought possible before.

Poem July 24, 2021

Christopher Lion

Sealed with a Righteous Kiss

Excerpt July 21, 2021

Florencia Cerruti

Rebirth at 50 – Preface

Artwork July 20, 2021

Michele Keir

Frizzy Me

July 20, 2021
Photography July 18, 2021

Robert J. Kamper

Eurybia hemispherica (Southern Prairie Aster)

July 18, 2021
Photography July 18, 2021

Robert J. Kamper

Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian Sunflower)

July 18, 2021
Photography July 18, 2021

Robert J. Kamper

Echinocereus reichenbachii (Lace Hedgehog Cactus, Lace Cactus, Lace Hedgehog)

July 18, 2021
Artwork July 18, 2021

Michele Keir

Flower Child

July 18, 2021
Gallery July 17, 2021

Robert J. Kamper

July 17, 2021
Poem July 14, 2021

Stephen Kingsnorth

Lengths for Width

Poem July 14, 2021

John Giannico

Point of View

Photography July 13, 2021

Kerry Howard

The Innocence of Spring

July 13, 2021
Artwork July 13, 2021

Lorraine Wilson

Dopamine Kites

July 13, 2021
Photography July 13, 2021

Kerry Howard

Descent to the Blue Moulin

July 13, 2021
Poem July 13, 2021

Lorraine Wilson

A Raw Moment 

Poem July 13, 2021

Lorraine Wilson

Dose of Hope

Photography July 13, 2021

Kerry Howard

Migration

July 13, 2021
Poem July 12, 2021

Maria Maziotti Gillan

My Daughter Comes Home to Take Care of Her Sick Father

How can I love him and at the same time want him to die. . .?

- Maria Maziotti Gillan

Poem July 10, 2021

Maria Maziotti Gillan

Sometimes I’m Blind-Sided by Beauty

You’re going to carry this illness for the rest of your life. So you can either wallow in the weight of that or you can fight for your only life and make it a good story.

 

 

- Rhonda Foulds