James Castle.

Born in 1899 in rural Garden Valley, Idaho—only nine years after that frontier territory was admitted to the Union—James Castle mined the local landscape of his family’s homesteads and mapped his deeply private domestic world to produce a remarkable body of drawings, collages, and constructions. The singularity of Castle’s communicative impulse and prolific creative practice can be traced to his experiential focus. Profoundly deaf since birth, he never learned how to sign, read, or write in a conventional manner, but instead communicated through the eloquent vehicle of his art. www.foundationstaart.org

Castles drawings and "constructions" as his family called them, are child like in that they are not in correspondence with the outside art world, but with his own way of comunicating and thinking about the wold that he lived in. I'm fasinated with the way in which he made his constructions and the way he 'found' his materials.