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Colors of the Wind: The Story of Blind Artist and Champion Runner George Mendoza

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George was once a kind of kids. You know, the kind that never stays still. And then in the future, the doctor said he was once going blind. Did that slow George down? Not for a single second. In reality, he was once so fast, he went on to break a world record for blind runners. And now he’s breaking more barriers because paradoxically, George Mendoza, blind painter, paints what he sees.

George Mendoza began going blind at age 15 from a degenerative eye disease. It wasn’t the sudden onset of blindness that many of us experience. George lost his central vision and began seeing things that weren’t there–eyes floating in the air, unusual colors, objects multiplied and reflected back. George describes this condition as having “kaleidoscope eyes.”

He triumphed over his blindness by setting the world record in the mile for blind runners, and later competing in both the 1980 and 1984 Olympics for the Disabled. Now a full-time artist, Mendoza’s number of paintings, also titled Colors of the Wind, is a National Smithsonian Affiliates traveling exhibit.

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