A creative man, Henry Darger

When anyone in our class hears the name Henry Darger i can almost promise you we think "the crazy dude who was obsessed with kids" or something along those lines at least. I feel that Darger is just a different kind of man, I do not feel he is mentally ill. Henry was treated like he was mentally ill and put into an insane asylum, but i do not think that was right. The people around him never wanted to take the time to get to know him, but then again, Darger was very closed off to people, he only had one friend. The people who lived around him were always kind though, and they helped Darger when he needed them, especially when it came to rent money, or when he was very sick and dying. Darger was very closed off to the world, he mostly kept to himself in his apartment drawing and writing his huge book of roughly 30,000 pages. I feel Henry was truly a creative man, i feel this way because he created his own world though his story. Even though some of the events that took place in his story were based on his life and this world, doesn't mean he isn't creative. He created characters that eventually became his friends, he loved them and he never wanted to leave them. Darger drew huge pictures the size of a school white board, and it was drawn on the front and the back. He had wonderful artistic skills, he used many different tactics to draw is characters and backgrounds, he copied, traced, enlarged, and he also used his imagination. Henry had a very out there imagination, one that I had never seen before, which makes him very unique in my eyes and that is why I feel we should care about his art and his creation. He seemed like a wonderful man with a rough life, but he did not let the unfortunate events of his life bring him down, he created wonderful and interesting pieces that are now displayed in a museum, if a person is in a museum, I feel that it is necessary to pay attention to him and his works of art.