Happy Holidays
When selecting the artwork for our 2025 holiday card, we wanted something bright and joyful. We found so much more.
We found Jeremy Sicile-Kira. Diagnosed with severe autism as a child, his parents accepted the diagnosis, but not the prognosis. As a nonspeaker, Jeremy learned to communicate through typing. While attending community college in 2011, he communicated to his mother for the first time that he saw letters and words in color. He thought everyone did, and was surprised by her reaction. In 2012, he began to communicate to others about the dreams he was having: dreams that he was painting the emotions of people he had met into colorful portraits.
Jeremy had his first curated solo show, “Inner Dimensions”, in April 2016, held at Space4Art in San Diego; it was covered by national media, including People.com, NBC, ABC, Good Morning America, and thecreatorsproject.vice.com.
Learn more about Jeremy’s story, talent, and vision at jeremysvision.com.
The painting we selected to showcase, "Treading Others with Kindness," is not only stunning, it also has a powerful message from Jeremy in his own words ...
Frankly, I had a dream about great kindness all around. Truly pink like a rose is nicely present for the loving peaceful energy that I very dearly feel when I am surrounded by family and friends. Nicely peaceful green like the grass kindly is for the calmness I feel when people truly do nice things for others. Yellow is present for the happiness and kindness I justly feel when people smile. Turquoise blue is dearly present for the knowledge and intuitiveness I feel when people are genuinely kind towards others. Orange is frankly for the fun we dearly will all have when we are kind towards each other. Purple is present for nice positivity all around.
Magenta is kindly present for the love that we have in our hearts. Justly, indigo is present for the ability to be unique. Frankly, yellow-green is truly present for the peace and harmony we greatly feel when we all want kindness. Nicely, that makes me happy. Beautiful lavender is present for all of the kindness that is nicely shown by all people. Frankly, I truly love the positive energy I kindly feel. White is for the hope that everyone will be kind to one another every day. Gold and silver nicely represent a higher power that is frankly dearly always nicely with us.
NEXT was introduced to Jeremy through TEVA Community, a NEXT for AUTISM Grantee, an organization dedicated to supporting nonspeaking autistic individuals.
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Happy Holidays from the NEXT for AUTISM family to yours. We wish you kindness and good health this holiday season and in the new year.
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