09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
This artist can't speak aloud. His work says it all.
Charles Lenny Lunn creates bright abstract paintings and develops thoughtful messages for each one. But he can't verbally tell viewers the meanings.
Born with a rare genetic condition linked with autism, apraxia — a neurological disorder that impacts his speech — and other developmental challenges, Lunn, 34, of Bethesda, Maryland, cannot speak. He paints and then, with a communications specialist, taps to letters on a laminated piece of paper to spell out what he wants to convey. The specialist then types his words on a computer screen.
