A local artist is inspiring San Antonio. Not just with his talented work on canvas, but also with his amazing attitude and spirit. 54-year-old Robert Rehm is paralyzed from the neck down, but he isn’t letting that stop him from painting. Rehm can hold a brush in his mouth for fine point work, and also uses a computer to create stencils which he paints over using a breath-controlled electric wheelchair to track paint across a large canvas. “It’s like ice skating with color,” Rehm says. Last night, Rehm opened his first art exhibition called “Hot Wheels and Hot Lips.”
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