Transcript
What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is James Cock, and I'm a wannabe artist. I took up painting and I've gone crazy like a painting fool because I have the in-stage glaucoma and I see patterns. So I had my wife on Father's Day, get me some paint and some canvases and whatnot. And I painted what I see. I realized, heck, is that taking me long to do that? I want to keep painting. I use acrylic and I didn't know anything about how to do backgrounds and all that, but I picked it up and learning. Now I'm 70 when I picked up painting, it was like a breath of fresh air. There's a group. It's called the Visually in Paird Foundation of Georgia. They have been so much help to me. And I entered the Georgia artist with disabilities contest. My picture I depicted was called Cowboys, and it won a Stinglest Amerit Award. It was a movie and I paused it, took a picture of it, and when I look at my phone, all I see is the hatch walking through the woods. It's like they're floating on a sheet or something. And that's how that painting came about. I want a little cash prize and low in my hole, somebody bought it. So I've been blessed in every way. Since the Lord don't guarantee you another day, you know, I want to just paint and paint until I drop. My name is James Cot and I'm an artist. I'm a new artist, but I'm an artist. You're listening to Voices That Inspire.