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Texas-based artist John Bramblitt perceives the world and everything in it through colour. His paintings are stunningly vivid, bursting with colour and texture but ironically, Bramblitt is blind.
The 37-year-old has been suffering epileptic seizures since the age of two. As he grew older, the seizures became more and more frequent. His vision gradually began to deteriorate – at first it would become blurry and then eventually clear up. But with time, it cleared up less after each episode, and by 2001 he had become completely blind. Bramblitt was at his lowest when something changed – a year after he became completely blind, he decided to bring colours back into his life.
So he picked up a bottle of glue and began to draw outlines that he could feel after the glue dried. Bramblitt starts by forming a picture in his mind and then uses fabric paint to produce outlines that can be felt with his fingers. The braille on the tubes of paint help him identify colours, but over time, he has learned how to recognise them by touch.
So he uses this technique to mix shades and fill them into the outlines. Bramblitt’s work has received several honours and media attention over the past decades. His first drawings were misshapen and clumsy, but just the fact that he could connect lines and curves gave him hope.
Since then, he has spent countless hours practicing and mastering the art of painting without sight. And he got really good at it – paintings that once took him 14 hours to complete were now coming to him faster. His concentration and focus increased, and his work became bolder and more vivid.
His works soon became a medium for him to express how he perceived colours and shapes.
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