Local artist brushes beyond disability with boundless spirit
By Todd A. Vines and Lanaly Cabalo
Posted: Friday, Aug 25, 2006 - 12:36:09 pm HST
It’s a bold, colorful piece. The subject of the painting, a burley kane in traditional dress, turns his heavy eyes mauka, and the slightest bit of azure reflects in the windows to his soul. His left hand is wrapped firmly around an ipu, as if he could launch out into a moving mele at any moment.
It’s a piece that grabs your attention. It only becomes more compelling to know that the artist painted it with his mouth.
Moses Hamilton has been a quadriplegic for almost four years but has learned to take his experience and turn it into an opportunity to focus on his artwork.
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