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He was born blind and was curious about the world around him - mostly about objects too big to feel. He would feel the objects themselves or a raised line drawing or a copper relief etching. He would then try to replicate what he had felt and when someone declared it looked like the real object/scene, he would know it "got it right." Eventually he started making paintings using the information he had absorbed and memorized (this also explains how he learned colors). Joan, his manager

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