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Artist PAINTS Without SIGHT | The Happiness Stories
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(dramatic instrumental music) – I guess, you know, there are some days I’m like a James Bond martini, more shaken than stirred, you know, but it’s just me on that day. You know, on the next day, it doesn’t mean that’s the way I’m gonna be the day after. So just learning how to deal with things in that moment, on that day. And the great thing about art, the great thing about painting, is that you’re unable to think
about anything other than the paint on the end of that brush right at that moment. You’re not thinking
about anything you lost, you’re not thinking about
something around the corner, around the, you know, in the future. You’re not thinking about
10 minutes from now. You’re thinking about that microsecond, that moment, putting that
brushstroke on the right spot. The freedom from that
and the liberty of that is just incredible. But you keep taking those moments, and you keep painting and keep painting, and keep stringing ’em
together, so I would paint like eight hours, 10 hours, 16 hours a day, every day, seven days a week, and suddenly, I wasn’t scared anymore. And I wasn’t angry, and I wasn’t fearful. I wasn’t anything. I was just in that sort of mindset, where I was in the moment. If you think about it,
all a sighted artist uses their eyes for is to
know where on the paper or the canvas that they are
and where they’ve been. For me, I use lines that
I can touch and feel. Every mark lets you know
exactly where you are on that canvas you touch. And it’s interesting to hear stories, like I just love stories, and that’s why I love commissions, ’cause like I’ll talk to people and then they’ll say, oh, you know, I met my husband when we
were in Paris, and on and on, and it’s this beautiful
story about how they did it, all these little quirky facts. But it’s hard for people
to talk about emotion, like, well how did you feel? It’s hard to put that into words. But I can ask them, well,
what song reminds you of how you felt, or what
song feels that way, and they’ll come up
with two or three songs, you know, that gives
them that same emotion, that same feeling. So whenever I’m working on the painting, I can listen to the music, and it gives me kind of a window into how they felt, so I’m using the colors that
I’m seeing through the music, and, you know, it’s just a way to connect. (dramatic instrumental music)
