[accessibleimage] In Blindness, a Bold New Artistic Vision - John Bramblitt
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- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:57:51 +0100
excerpt from The New York Times
In Blindness, a Bold New Artistic Vision
The faces in John Bramblitt’s paintings peer out through their canvases
like hazy daydreams — apparitions that make it all the more astounding
that the artist is blind.
Mr. Bramblitt, 37, lost his vision gradually over about 20 years,
becoming completely blind in 2001. The exact cause is not clear, but Mr.
Bramblitt, who lives in Dallas, suspects that it resulted from years of
brain seizures
<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/seizures/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>
that began at age 2, leading to a diagnosis of epilepsy
<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/epilepsy/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>.
As he grew older, the seizures became more and more frequent and changed
in character — from tonic-clonic, which causes a loss of consciousness
and violent twitching, to partial, in which the patient remains
conscious but cannot function for a few moments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/health/17voic.html?_r=2&ref=health&pagewanted=print
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