Saturday, May 17, 2008 Everyday Heroes
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A Blind Painter's Inner Vision

A Blind Painter's Inner Vision
John Bramblitt lost his sight to epilepsy, but not his inner vision. The University of North Texas undergraduate shows how he managed to transform the anger he felt about his disability into art--developing a system of painting by touch, using his fingers in the place of eyes to create paintings of astonishing vibrancy. "If I hadn't lost my sight, I don't think I would have become a painter," Bramblitt says. "The whole point of beginning was symbolic--to prove that I could still see."

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