Stephen Wiltshire Draws Manhattan Skyline From Memory

Since Mon­day, Oct. 26, British artist Stephen Wilt­shire has been fill­ing in an 18-foot can­vas at the Pratt Inti­tute in Brook­lyn as he attempts to draw the entire Man­hat­tan sky­line from mem­ory. Diag­nosed with autism at the age of three, Wilt­shire has an unusu­ally pow­er­ful pho­to­graphic mem­ory that he has applied to ren­der­ing cityscapes, includ­ing Lon­don, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rome, Madrid, Frank­furt, Dubai and Jerusalem.

The draw­ing is expected to be com­pleted by Fri­day (you can fol­low his progress via live web­cam on his web­site). Wow.

via design­boom