Art Description (What inspired you to create the artwork?) This is my son Jack. He has brought me the gift of perceptive. He was born with severe social and language delays. He was unable to connect, communicate and engage within the norms, even eye contact was not really possible. Jack entered school as special needs non-verbal child. But as you can see he is holding your gaze in the portrait. He is what you would call a miracle. After many years of medical appointments, therapy and anguish, roughly around his 5th birthday he started to come around. He is now a completely present and engage in this world. His smile means the world to me, more then anyone can understand.