Mark Kuhn's latest works of art seem to vibrate with incandescent color. Decorating the walls of Kuhn's Huntington Bay house, the paintings are filled with interlocking green, blue, pink and orange figures, which dive, somersault and leap on the canvas.
Friends and family see them as a final burst of creativity for Kuhn, an artist who is in the final stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease affecting nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, and also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Around Thanksgiving, Kuhn, who has bulbar-onset ALS, a particularly acute form that at first affects the throat area, lost the ability to speak. In January, doctors told Kuhn he had no more than six months to live, according to Bennett Kuhn, 20, his son. Bennett is taking an open-ended leave of absence from his philosophy and Arabic studies at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., to help care for his father. He also speaks for him.
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Huntington Bay artist painting against the clock
- By alsgny
- Posted March 1, 2009 at 2:01 pm · 0 replies
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