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Our society still don't get the message. #RIPOurFuture
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Wow. (Original Post)
n2doc
Jul 2016
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Gothmog
(143,998 posts)1. Very powerful, disturbing and sad image
I agree with the OP. WOW
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)2. Strange fruit
marble falls
(56,353 posts)7. and the American Way.
Loki
(3,825 posts)3. Says more than a thousand words.
Pictures can often invoke much stronger responses and this one goes there.
niyad
(112,424 posts)4. wow, indeed!
sarge43
(28,939 posts)5. Lest we forget. n/t
progressoid
(49,824 posts)6. The inspiring story about the artist, Patrick Campbell.
...Patrick was born and raised in Washington DC, and hes been drawing his whole life, so naturally, he chose to go to a high school focused on the arts. On October 10, 2004, he turned 14 years old, as a high school freshman. Two days later, Patrick suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his right side. As an active teen who played 4 different sports and danced, this was a crushing blow. But most of all, he had been right-handed and it rendered him unable to even hold a pencil in his right hand.
He was wheelchair bound as he went through physical and speech therapy during his stay at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in DC, and he had given up on ever drawing again. His speech therapist encouraged him to draw Winnie the Pooh with his left hand and he refused at first. Finally, he tried and the first time, he was so discouraged by how awful it was. He kept practicing though, and within a couple of weeks, Patrick was able to draw cars he saw in the parking lot with great accuracy. By the time he was discharged from the hospital 4 days before Christmas (2 months after his stroke), Patrick could draw with his left hand just as well as he was drawing with his right before.
I had to stop him there to exclaim WOWWW! Not only does he create his art with the one hand that wasnt his dominant one to begin with, he trained his left hand to take over his gift in two months...http://thegrio.com/2014/12/06/new-age-of-slavery-painting-patrick-campbell/
He was wheelchair bound as he went through physical and speech therapy during his stay at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in DC, and he had given up on ever drawing again. His speech therapist encouraged him to draw Winnie the Pooh with his left hand and he refused at first. Finally, he tried and the first time, he was so discouraged by how awful it was. He kept practicing though, and within a couple of weeks, Patrick was able to draw cars he saw in the parking lot with great accuracy. By the time he was discharged from the hospital 4 days before Christmas (2 months after his stroke), Patrick could draw with his left hand just as well as he was drawing with his right before.
I had to stop him there to exclaim WOWWW! Not only does he create his art with the one hand that wasnt his dominant one to begin with, he trained his left hand to take over his gift in two months...http://thegrio.com/2014/12/06/new-age-of-slavery-painting-patrick-campbell/
https://www.facebook.com/PatrickCampbellArt
http://www.redbubble.com/people/sageex/works/13200886-new-age-of-slavery?ref=work_main_nav
AllyCat
(16,031 posts)12. Incredible life! Incredible work!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)13. Thank you n/t
calimary
(80,693 posts)8. WOW, indeed.
No words. Just wow.
No Vested Interest
(5,156 posts)9. That hurts. nt
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)10. Very significant...
and haunting. Kudos to the artist.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)11. Like being kicked in the gut n/t
raven mad
(4,940 posts)14. This kicked me in the gut.
Powerful. K&R, bookmarked.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)15. wow