Artist Jesse Treviño lost his hand while serving in Vietnam. When he came home, he reinvented himself as a painter.
In 1966, Jesse Treviño was drafted out of art school and sent to Vietnam. In a Smithsonian oral-history interview, he recalls thinking that he might die amid sniper fire and explosions, while imagining all the things he still wanted to paint. Mr.
Treviño survived, but his right hand—the one he used to paint—was injured so badly that surgeons couldn’t save it. Slowly and despite great pain, he reinvented himself as an artist. Between 1971 and 1973 he painted “Mi Vida” , a large-scale panorama that features the face of a female schoolmate who died young, the artist’s own Purple Heart medal, his hand prosthesis...
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