Thanks To Blindness, An Artist Finds His Vision

Thanks To Blindness, An Artist Finds His 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 that began at age 2, leading to a diagnosis of epilepsy.

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.

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