One thing you would not know about the paintings by just looking is that Jared Dunten painted them all with his mouth. An accident more than 20 years ago left him paralyzed from the neck down. The trick to mouth painting? 'Just keep going.”
is in the back of his house in a wooded area off Highway 71. It’s bathed in light from windows that sit over concrete walls. There are paintings everywhere — on shelves, propped up in corners.
He went to high school in Austin, then college at Texas A&M, where he majored in English. He says he graduated with a plan to return to Austin and become an “Alex P. Keaton” success, referring to Michael J. Fox's character on"Family Ties." Dunten doesn’t remember a lot from this time. He was there for months, medicated, battling pneumonia on top of everything else. He remembers that listening to music helped pass the time. Eventually, he went to a rehab center in Houston.
“I can do something like in the sense of physically do something!” he says. “That's kind of how it started was just this ugly file cabinet, and now it's less ugly.”He worked for the agency and studied under other painters. Some friends introduced him to Kimberly Katzberg around 2003. They started off as friends but their relationship grew.
He also uses longer brushes for these jobs. They provide more reach. But manipulating them is hard on his teeth, jaw and neck.slugging it out with the canvas.”
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