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Wow. (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2016 OP
Very powerful, disturbing and sad image Gothmog Jul 2016 #1
Strange fruit Ohioblue22 Jul 2016 #2
and the American Way. marble falls Jul 2016 #7
Says more than a thousand words. Loki Jul 2016 #3
wow, indeed! niyad Jul 2016 #4
Lest we forget. n/t sarge43 Jul 2016 #5
The inspiring story about the artist, Patrick Campbell. progressoid Jul 2016 #6
Incredible life! Incredible work! AllyCat Jul 2016 #12
Thank you n/t n2doc Jul 2016 #13
WOW, indeed. calimary Jul 2016 #8
That hurts. nt No Vested Interest Jul 2016 #9
Very significant... tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #10
Like being kicked in the gut n/t ailsagirl Jul 2016 #11
This kicked me in the gut. raven mad Jul 2016 #14
wow Liberal_in_LA Jul 2016 #15

Loki

(3,825 posts)
3. Says more than a thousand words.
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 12:09 PM
Jul 2016

Pictures can often invoke much stronger responses and this one goes there.

progressoid

(49,824 posts)
6. The inspiring story about the artist, Patrick Campbell.
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 01:24 PM
Jul 2016
...Patrick was born and raised in Washington DC, and he’s 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 wasn’t 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
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