…photographing hospital activities, staff, and patients. During this time he also taught film and editing to a local group of high school students at the South Dallas Cultural Center’s Summer Arts Program. He then went back to school to get his Masters in Fine Arts in 2009–accomplishing all of this while having no hands.
And from every experience, whether good or bad, or every strange stare, Desmond can smile each and every day because he knows who he is and his purpose.
“All of that stuff, I just put it on a canvas and that’s my personal reminder to get up every day and kill it. I don’t think disabled, I think different.”
On his websites, Blair sums up what he is and what he will be perfectly:
“I am an Artist and problem solver. The two attributes go hand in hand. Speaking of which, I was born without hands. However, that has not stopped me or slowed me down in anyway. I have a spirit or fire. ( Although I think it could just be my grandmother’s stubborness.) I am determined, driven, and I will make my way into history by becoming one of the GREATEST artists in the world with a difference (not disability).”