Blind Eye Artist | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The origin story of painter Justin Wadlington, blind in his left eye. | dG1fenI3RGlIdEZ0cG8

Transcript

00:00 Without further ado, I call this painting...

00:03 There's something about Justin Wadlington.

00:07 With the detail and the passion, that is reminiscent to me of Warhol and Herring.

00:19 I am definitely in the market for a Justin Wadlington original.

00:26 The shack that my man Justin was hanging out at the affiliate with me at.

00:30 His collection of work is incredible.

00:32 Artwork at its best. Shout out to my guy Justin Wadlington. Philadelphia.

00:37 I want my art to go places where I know that it will live forever.

00:40 Everything that happened to him, he could have went in a whole 'nother direction.

00:45 I was in an accident at five years old with my eye. Everything went black.

00:52 We just didn't know if he would ever see again.

00:55 I was put into an emergency shelter.

00:58 I just always had this mentality that I'm not going to be a statistic.

01:02 He was like a self-taught artist.

01:06 Marking on sneakers and t-shirts.

01:08 I was looking like, "Man, this guy's talented."

01:10 He wasn't getting exposure.

01:12 Self-taught artists, we definitely have to take a different route.

01:17 When I go into detail, I feel like I'm going into another dimension.

01:25 The curtain first drops, it's your first image of something that will be eternal.

01:30 The story behind each piece gets better and better.

01:33 Look at that view from here. That is serious, right?

01:36 Man.

01:37 You're going to fall over?

01:38 When you were a kid, you never thought that you'd be an artist.

01:42 He went from daycare walls to selling his paintings to world-famous art collectors and celebrities.

01:51 Whoa!

01:52 But I stand in this room and I wonder.

01:55 I wonder where I would be if I let all that take me under.

01:57 The soul of an artist.

02:00 Your mom, she's in heaven saying, "You are the dream."

02:04 Anything you want to complete in life, you got to visualize it first.

02:10 [The Art of the Curtain]

02:13 (whooshing)