![]() 'He knows that he draws very well, but he picks that up from other people he sees the warmth on their faces, they tell him how much they like his work, and that makes him very happy. 'That he has a gift makes no sense at all to Stephen,' Ms. 'The Early Show' on CBS brought him to New York for his current project. After the school entered his artwork in competitions, his talents began to get attention: he was featured in a BBC program, 'Fragments of Genius.'. Later, they wanted him to master the London subways, to cope with diversions or delays that might interrupt his fixed routines. The family was more concerned in those days with finding a school where he could learn to read and write. ![]() Wiltshire has built a bridge to the world that had once been cut off to him. ![]() By unpacking in exquisite detail the riches that he absorbs in a glimpse, Mr. Now 35, he has already drawn eight major cities after flyovers. 'Z' that's the same as zed,' his sister interjected, pronouncing the letter the British way. In time, a clever teacher taught him the alphabet by associating each letter with a place he had drawn 'a' for Albert Hall, 'b' for Buckingham Palace, and so on. With pen and paper in hand, he drew what he had seen that day. Then they asked him to say something else, and he said, 'Pen.' “He said, 'Paper,' - his sister, Annette Wiltshire, said. One day, his kindergarten class at a school for autistic children in London went on a field trip. Until age 5, he had never uttered a word. 'I always memorize by helicopter,' he said on Tuesday, pausing from detailing the corners of a street on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. He is working publicly in a gallery at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Since then, working only from the memory of that sight, he has been sketching and drawing a mighty panorama of the city, rendering the city’s 305 square miles along an arc of paper that is 19 feet long. In a helicopter above the city on Friday, Stephen Wiltshire of London looked down at the streets and sprawl of New York.
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