I'm Writing a Novel about Two Aspie Artist Girls

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Hello,

I’m writing a book about two aspie artist girls, two sisters, circa 1890, and how they grow up. It will be called “Marion and Stella” and I’ve been working on it for about a year.

To find out about me, please check out my website http://www.dainakrumins.com
Illustrations will be very, very, very important, and critical for the story. I need some help with the photography of the girls.

Here’s my plan: I need to find families with girls who would be willing to take photographs of them in 1890’s costumes. I will sew the costumes, as I did for one of my films called “Summer Light,” and will mail these costumes to you along with some instructions about photo angles.

Unless you live within 50 miles or so of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, I cannot come to take the photos, but it would be simple to do. Also, the illustrations will be primarily about the girls’ world.

If you have any suggestions or ideas about how to go about finding families that would be willing to help with this project, please contact me directly at [email protected].

Any ideas, links, networking ideas, or any other information would be appreciated.
Thank you for considering this request.

Daina

Couldn't you just get two models? And as far as Aspies in 1890, the condition of Asperger's hadn't been diagnosed by Hans Asperger yet, and I'm not even sure that autism of any kind was even understood that early.

Hello,
First of all, this book and anything I create is a creative process. The writing inspires images, the images inspire more writing, and so on. I really hope I can find a family with girls who would be interested in helping to create a book. When the book is complete, I could get models to pose for the illustrations, but that would not work with the process. Also, a family with aspie girls would bring more ideas for the illustrations.

This book is not being written for profit, but for fun. I will publish it online as a ebook, but it probably will make just enough money to pay for the publishing, if that. I've never done my art for money. For money I've always worked as a legal secretary and since I retired from that, I've been working online doing transcription.

Just because Hans Asperger hadn't studied Asperger's yet, doesn't mean that the personality type has not always existed. For women it has historically been "under the radar" because for creative women to do what they wanted to do, they have had to hide it. Even Jane Austen could only publish anonymously in the beginning. If a woman started, say, a furniture business in 1800, it would automatically fail if it became known that it was owned and run by a woman. Nevertheless, I think women have created many things. It has always been assumed that cave paintings were done by men, but present research shows they were done by women who left their handprints.

My favorite from Emily Dickinson.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.

I really wish that I could help, but I currently live in Colorado. If there is anything I can do then please contact me.

Hello PrincessSerena,

Thank you for your reply. There are two things that could help, but only one right now. It doesn't matter
where you live because costumes can be sent by mail and photos sent back by email. The main problem is
whether or not you have access to some girls of the appropriate ages, between five and . . . 10? Not particularly beautiful, just ordinary girls.

I would send you the costumes and a mock-up of the image and then you would dress the girls in the costumes and
pose them in the correct position.

The girls' privacy would not be compromised because they would only be part of a larger image. The book is about the girls and their world, not about what they look like.

Please contact me directly at [email protected] and I'll send you some images as attachments.

Daina