Exercise 16 cecity A stroll through the private gallery of Luis Roberto will soon convince anyone with taste for art that the 80-year-old master is a man to be watched. For fifty years, Don Luis painted only as a hobby, but at age 70, even in the face of impending cecity, Don Luis left his business world for a full-time career in art. His paintings glow with colours and forms that are alive, reaching off the canvas to pull the viewer into their play. Healthy in every other respect, Don Luis is falling prey to cecity, an affliction he justifiably considers a demonic scourge. The onset of blindness marks the beginning of the end for a giant talent. Don Luis compensates for his darkened world by painting as

boldly with texture as he does with colour and form. Bodies are literally piled onto one another, forcing themselves into one's vision and begging one to reach out a hand to touch them.